Cheap Meat

Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands

By: Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington

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Paperback | 8 February 2010 | Edition Number 1

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"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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"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

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction What's Not on Our Plates	p. 1
Thinking about Meat	p. 12
Making Flaps	p. 29
Trading Meat	p. 53
Papua New Guinea's Flaps	p. 72
Smiles and Shrugs, Worried Eyes and Sighs	p. 96
Pacific Island Flaps	p. 117
Conclusion One Supersize Does Not Fit All: Flap Versus Mac	p. 148
Notes	p. 167
References	p. 193
Index	p. 209
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