Big-men and business: entrepreneurship and economic growth in the New Guinea Highlands
- Description:
- High in the New Guinea mountains a sociological drama of unique design has been unfolding since the early 1930s. At that time the first of the Europeans who would take part in the area{u2019}s development trekked into the remote highlands. These early gold prospectors, patrol officers, and missionaries made the first outside contacts with the Stone Age Gorokan people. These encounters ultimately catapulted the Gorokans, subsistence gardeners cultivating sweet potatoes and raising pigs, squarely into the twentieth century. The magnitude of th...
- Display date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Papua New Guinea
- Format:
- book
- Collections:
- Australian National University Library
- Publisher:
- Australian National University Press
- Content partner:
- Australian National University Library
- Availability:
- Not specified
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