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Note. Lecture 13 4 Feb. 2014 ANTHROPOLOGY OF NUTRITION. SOUTH PACIFIC. FOOD CHOICES. Food selection variously based on: Family decisions about what to eat women on the roster as cook in some communities women not allowed to cook if menstruating. Food choices also based on:

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  1. Note

  2. Lecture 13 4 Feb. 2014 ANTHROPOLOGY OF NUTRITION

  3. SOUTH PACIFIC

  4. FOOD CHOICES

  5. Food selection variously based on: • Family decisions about what to eat • women on the roster as cook • in some communities women not allowed to cook if menstruating

  6. Food choices also based on: • coordination between cook and harvesters • immediately upon harvesting the food is replanted

  7. Food selection variously based on: primary secondary fall back foods

  8. primary secondary fall back Tahiti taro, breadfruit bananas sweet potato Ocean coconuts none none

  9. FACTORS GOVERNING PRIMARY SECONDARY FALL BACK

  10. TASTE SAMOA LIKE BREADFRUIT UNDERRIPE SINCE DO NOT LIKE SWEET TRUK LIKE POPOI (FERMENTED BREADFRUIT) A DELICACY – CAN VARY ACIDITY TO TASTE BY ADDING MORE OF LESS FRESH BREADFRUIT

  11. ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEFINITION OF TASTE IS LARGELY BASED ON WHAT WE KNOW BITTER SWEET SOUR SALT

  12. BUT YET POLYNESIAN WORD FOR SALTY “MASI” ACTUALLY REFERS TO FOODS FERMENTED IN PITS

  13. VARIETY PLANTS- MANY DIFFERENT STARCH FOODS ON ATOLLS –LIMITED RANGE OF FOOD- VARIETY IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT

  14. VARIETY IN PART BROUGHT ON BY: SEASONAL FOODS SUCH AS BREADFRUIT WESTERNERS LIKE CAPTAIN COOK LEAVING VARIOUS SEEDS ONLY PUMPKINS, MELONS AND PINEAPPLES WERE SUCCESSFUL AMONG THE SEEDS LEFT

  15. VARIED INVENTORY CAN BE STORED VARIETY IS A FORM OF INSURANCE THIS IS IMPORTANT IN TIMES OF HURRICANE OR STORM 

  16. MODERATION THERE IS AN EXPRESSION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC “EAT WHILE YOU SEE IT” OBVIOUSLY THERE WOULD BE TIMES OF FOOD SHORTAGE CONTRAST TO NORTH AMERICA

  17. Large amounts of food prepared for Tonga Chiefs Lots of work went into the preparation of such meals Believed that a well fed form was a symbol of strength

  18. A well fed chief was a symbol of a prosperous society Also if people are well fed people and the visitors are well fed then it is an indication that the visitors are well looked after Is this concept universal?

  19. Seasonal variation in food supply leads to gorging However, food is less nutrient dense and must eat more energy to get sufficient nutrients

  20. Factors affecting food choices in the South Pacific -food classification -factors at the household and community must be taken into account -social and biological factors

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