Cultivating Gardens
Cultivating Gardens
Women's Labor
This chapter moves from the men's role in creating a garden to the women's role in cultivating it. It begins with a discussion of garden tilling, where women pull the weeds and herbs from the gardens that were recently harvested. The next step is the burning of vegetation that was removed from the garden sites; this is considered as a significant aspect of the New Guinea farming regime. The difference in the crops planted by men and women are distinguished, as well as the work involved in maintaining and harvesting the gardens. The chapter ends with a look at the time that farmers can spend gardening and the changes that were introduced into the farming system of Wola, such as the use of steel tools rather than stone tools.
Keywords: cultivation, garden tilling, burning, farming regime, crops, maintenance, harvesting, changes, steel tools
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