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Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History (review)

Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History (review) the contemporary pacific · 20:1 (2008) Papua New Guineans who, like Yali in the book's title, also seek an answer to the vexing question of why white people have so many powerful material goods. A third set of readers is clearly envisioned, and those are students of history, anthropology, and politics who are called on in the text to avoid subscribing to a history that is "intellectually and politically flawed" (6) because it ignores "the ways in which various people understand the desirable and the feasible" (7). Gewertz and Errington go about their task through an engagingly rich and nuanced ethnographic focus on the ways in which the development of rsl in the Upper Ramu Valley has been and continues to be shaped by the expectations and desires of differently situated parties to the enterprise. To capture these different positions they devote verbatim space, and then analytic attention, to narratives told by those involved, which are discernable from archival and documentary material. The narratives of course trace the history of the factory, from the first visions of development under colonial survey and government intervention, through land alienation and factory construction, to contemporary pressures faced by its management, workers, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History (review)

The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 20 (1) – Feb 11, 2007

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the contemporary pacific · 20:1 (2008) Papua New Guineans who, like Yali in the book's title, also seek an answer to the vexing question of why white people have so many powerful material goods. A third set of readers is clearly envisioned, and those are students of history, anthropology, and politics who are called on in the text to avoid subscribing to a history that is "intellectually and politically flawed" (6) because it ignores "the ways in which various people understand the desirable and the feasible" (7). Gewertz and Errington go about their task through an engagingly rich and nuanced ethnographic focus on the ways in which the development of rsl in the Upper Ramu Valley has been and continues to be shaped by the expectations and desires of differently situated parties to the enterprise. To capture these different positions they devote verbatim space, and then analytic attention, to narratives told by those involved, which are discernable from archival and documentary material. The narratives of course trace the history of the factory, from the first visions of development under colonial survey and government intervention, through land alienation and factory construction, to contemporary pressures faced by its management, workers,

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Published: Feb 11, 2007

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