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Cheap meat : flap food nations in the Pacific Islands / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nutritional anthropology--Pacific Islands.
- Nutritional anthropology.
- Lamb meat industry--Pacific Islands.
- Lamb meat industry.
- Mutton industry--Pacific Islands.
- Mutton industry.
- Animal gut industries--Pacific Islands.
- Animal gut industries.
- Food habits--Pacific Islands.
- Food habits.
- Islands of the Pacific--Foreign economic relations--Australia.
- Islands of the Pacific.
- Islands of the Pacific--Foreign economic relations--New Zealand.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps," from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua New Guinea. They show that flaps-which are taken from the animals' bellies and are often 50 percent fat-are not mere market transactions but evidence of the social nature of nutrition policies, illustrating and reinforcing Pacific Islanders' presumed second-class status relative to the white populations of Australia and New Zealand.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. What's Not on Our Plates
- ONE. Thinking about Meat
- TWO. Making Flaps
- THREE. Trading Meat
- FOUR. Papua New Guinea's Flaps
- FIVE. Smiles and Shrugs, Worried Eyes and Sighs
- SIX. Pacific Island Flaps
- CONCLUSION. One Supersize Does Not Fit All
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612359828
- 9781282359826
- 1282359827
- 9780520945975
- 0520945972
- OCLC:
- 609850038
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