Cheap meat : flap food nations in the pacific islands /

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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. In this engrossing story, Deborah Gewertz and Frederick E...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Gewertz, Deborah B., 1948- (Author), Errington, Frederick Karl (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
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.
Anthropologie de l'alimentation > Pacifique, Îles du.
Agneau (Viande) > Industrie > Pacifique, Îles du.
Mouton (Viande) > Industrie > Pacifique, Îles du.
Boyauderie > Pacifique, Îles du.
Habitudes alimentaires > Pacifique, Îles du.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Animal gut industries.
Food habits.
International economic relations.
Lamb meat industry.
Mutton industry.
Nutritional anthropology.
Islands of the Pacific > Foreign economic relations > Australia.
Islands of the Pacific > Foreign economic relations > New Zealand.
Pacifique, Îles du > Relations économiques extérieures > Australie.
Pacifique, Îles du > Relations économiques extérieures > Nouvelle-Zélande.
Australia.
New Zealand.
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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