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Author Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948-

Title Cheap meat : flap food nations in the pacific islands / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington.

Publication Info. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Table of Cotents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Thinking about Meat; 2. Making Flaps; 3. Trading Meat; 4. Papua New Guinea's Flaps; 5. Smiles and Shrugs, Worried Eyes and Sighs; 6. Pacific Island Flaps; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
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. In this engrossing story, Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua New Guinea. More importantly, they show that flaps-which are taken from the animals' bellies and are often 50% fat-are not mere market transactions but are evidence of the social nature of.
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Subject Nutritional anthropology -- Islands of the Pacific.
Nutritional anthropology.
Lamb meat industry -- Islands of the Pacific.
Lamb meat industry.
Mutton industry -- Islands of the Pacific.
Mutton industry.
Animal gut industries -- Islands of the Pacific.
Animal gut industries.
Food habits -- Islands of the Pacific.
Food habits.
Islands of the Pacific -- Foreign economic relations -- Australia.
Islands of the Pacific -- Foreign economic relations -- New Zealand.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Errington, Frederick Karl.
Other Form: Print version: Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948- Cheap meat. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009020580
ISBN 9780520945975 (electronic book)
0520945972 (electronic book)
1282359827
9781282359826
9780520260924
0520260929
9780520260931
0520260937
Standard No. 9786612359828