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Author Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948- author.

Title Cheap meat : flap food nations in the pacific islands / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
Published Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Nutritional anthropology -- Islands of the Pacific
Lamb meat industry -- Islands of the Pacific
Mutton industry -- Islands of the Pacific
Animal gut industries -- Islands of the Pacific
Food habits -- Islands of the Pacific
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Animal gut industries
Food habits
International economic relations
Lamb meat industry
Mutton industry
Nutritional anthropology
SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific -- Foreign economic relations -- Australia
Islands of the Pacific -- Foreign economic relations -- New Zealand
Subject Australia
New Zealand
Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
Form Electronic book
Author Errington, Frederick Karl, author.
LC no. 2009020580
ISBN 9780520945975
0520945972
1282359827
9781282359826
9786612359828
661235982X