Cheap Meat

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Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands

By Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz

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Cheap Meat explores the contentious trade of inexpensive fatty lamb and mutton cuts known as "flaps," exported from farms in New Zealand and Australia to Pacific island markets in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. The authors examine how this trade evolved and highlight the social implications tied to nutrition policies, revealing the underlying dynamics of second-class status attributed to Pacific Islanders in relation to white populations in Australia and New Zealand.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in food studies, human rights, anthropology, and the social history of the Pacific Islands, as well as academic audiences in related fields.

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. This title addresses the evolution of the meat trade itself along with the changing practices of exchange in Papua New Guinea.

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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 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.

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"Could easily become a food studies classic... A compelling and informative read." – Material World
"Valuable book for a range of academic interests including human rights, photography and journalism, and the history of South Africa and apartheid." – Paul Lowe, Times Higher Education
"A fascinating study about a distasteful topic." – Eric K. Silverman, Pacific Affairs
"An engaging narrative... Will be of interest to a broad audience." – Geoffrey C. Marks, American Journal Of Human Biology

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520260931

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 February 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 12 b-w photographs, 1 line illustration, 2 maps

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 224

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Deborah Gewertz Education & Reference Frederick Errington Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.