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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456656603321

Autore

Gewertz Deborah B. <1948->

Titolo

Cheap meat [[electronic resource] ] : flap food nations in the Pacific Islands / / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-35982-7

9786612359828

0-520-94597-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ErringtonFrederick Karl

Disciplina

394.1/20996.5

Soggetti

Nutritional anthropology - Pacific Islands

Lamb meat industry - Pacific Islands

Mutton industry - Pacific Islands

Animal gut industries - Pacific Islands

Food habits - Pacific Islands

Electronic books.

Pacific Islands Foreign economic relations Australia

Pacific Islands Foreign economic relations New Zealand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.