Cheap Meat

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.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction - What's Not on Our Plates 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 - One Supersize Does Not Fit All: Flap Versus Mac Notes References Index

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