https://archive.org/details/yalis-question

Yali’s Question: Sugar, Culture, and History by Frederick Errington; Deborah Gewertz; Anthony T. Carter

Topics
#sugarplantation, #sugarplantations, #history, #PapuaNewGuinea, #PNG, #plantations, #neocolonialism, #antiblackness, #history, #Melanesia, #anthropology, #imperialism, #migration, #emigration, #RamuSugarLimited, #RSL, #RamuSugar, #capitalism

Yali’s Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL’s smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended sugar cane contrast sharply with the surrounding grassland. RSL not only dominates the landscape, but also shapes those culturally diverse thousands who left their homes to work there.