A01=Deborah Gewertz
A01=Frederick Errington
anthropology
australia
Author_Deborah Gewertz
Author_Frederick Errington
belly meat
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Category=JBSA
Category=KNAC
controversial
cuts of meat
discount meat
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ethnic differences
ethnographers
farms and farmers
fatty cuts
fatty meat
fiji
flap food
food politics
historical
human rights
inexpensive meat
lamb
meat farming
meat market
meat trade
mutton
new zealand
nonfiction
nutrition policies
pacific islanders
pacific islands
papua new guinea
second class status
social issues
social nutrition
social science
tonga
trade policies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520260924
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Feb 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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"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 per cent 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.
Deborah Gewertz is G. Henry Whitcomb 1874 Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Amherst College. Frederick Errington is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Among their many books are Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference and Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture, and History.
