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TIME ALLOCATION TO SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITIES AMONG THE HULI IN RURAL AND URBAN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2002

MASAHIRO UMEZAKI ,
TARO YAMAUCHI  and
RYUTARO OHTSUKA
MASAHIRO UMEZAKI
Affiliation:
Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
TARO YAMAUCHI
Affiliation:
Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
RYUTARO OHTSUKA
Affiliation:
Department of Human Ecology, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo
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Abstract

Time spent on subsistence activities was compared between rural sedentes and urban migrants of the Huli population in Papua New Guinea. Person-day observation data were collected for rural sedentes (441) in the Tari basin and for urban migrants in Port Moresby (175). The time spent on subsistence activities by males was longer in the urban area than in rural areas, while that by females was similar in both areas. Conspicuous gender inequality with respect to labour hours in rural areas seems to diminish when people move to urban areas, reflecting the different subsistence regime between rural and urban environments.

Type
Short Report
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 133 - 137
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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