essay
Production and circulation of food in Yap
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By: Egan, James A., Burton, Michael L., Nero, Karen L., Wilk, Richard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Yap diet and nutrition under the MIRAB economy. Since the initiation of the Compact of Free Association with the United States in 1986, Yap has received large annual subsidies from the U.S. government in exchange for use of a military base. These subsidies along with remittances from family members working abroad have funneled cash into the Yap economy with a resultant surge in imports, including food. Imported foods have been incorporated into the Yap gift exchange system and become part of the basic subsistence economy. The downside is that imported foods have had negative nutritional and health consequences, resulting in diabetes, obesity, hypertension, etc. The authors examine patterns of food production, transfer, and consumption in relation to household size, household development stage, wealth, wage labor, and urbanity. They present a complex picture of Yapese modernity in which both imported and locally produced food continue to play a central role in mediating property, gender and hierarchical relationships.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Diet
- Real property
- Gift giving
- External trade
- Standard of living
- Household
- Kin relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yapese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1992
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1986-2001
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton, and Karen L. Nero
- This is an unpublished manuscript scheduled to appear in FAST FOOD/SLOW FOOD: THE ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM, edited by Richard Wilk, in the monograph series of the Society for Economic Anthropology, to be published by Altamira Press.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-24)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)