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external politics, internal economics, and Ponapean social formation
Author(s) -
PETERSEN GLENN T.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1979.6.1.02a00020
Subject(s) - peasant , politics , perspective (graphical) , colonialism , economy , economics , term (time) , economic system , political economy , sociology , neoclassical economics , political science , law , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Long‐term transformations in Pacific island economies are analyzed in the perspective of their colonial experiences. Specifically, the modern political economy of Ponape, in the Caroline Islands, is compared with typical peasant economies. It is argued that historical changes in the Pacific do not necessarily produce the peasantlike societies frequently assumed to exist there and that development programs must take these conditions into account when planning for the area.