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Cheap Meat : Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands

Cheap Meat : Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Deborah B. Gewertz; Frederick Karl Errington

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  • Title Cheap Meat : Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands
  • Author Deborah B. Gewertz; Frederick Karl Errington
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0520260937I5N00
  • ISBN 9780520260931 / 0520260937
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Nutritional anthropology - Pacific Islands, Lamb meat industry - Pacific Islands
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009020580
  • Dewey Decimal Code 394.120

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From the rear cover

"Gewertz and Errington unpack the aspirations and anxieties, calculations and controversies that inhabit an inexpensive cut of fatty meat. Following the trail of sheep bellies from slaughterhouses in Australia and New Zealand to the plates of Pacific Islanders, they evenhandedly map the divergent perspectives of commercial traders, government officials, and ordinary consumers acting within a contested material and moral economy. Cheap Meat provides a startling view of how global food markets fashion the bodies and identities of people everywhere."--Robert J. Foster, author of Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea

"Cheap Meat is a compelling example of how ethnography concerned with Oceania can elucidate broader questions in anthropology and the social sciences in general. Gewertz and Errington show the complexity of globalization by focusing on the most unlikely commodity. This work at once demonstrates how unfettered capitalism is able to use global circulation to literally convert one person's trash to another's treasure and how resilient Pacific Islanders refashion Western commodities to their own ends."--Paige West, Curator for the Pacific American Museum of Natural History

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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2010, Page 0

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.