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2. Lecture Jan. 2011
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. Tahiti taro, breadfruit bananas sweet potato
primary secondary fall back
Tahiti taro, breadfruit bananas sweet potato
Ocean coconuts none none

11. FACTORS GOVERNING
PRIMARY
SECONDARY
FALL BACK

14. 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

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

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

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

18. 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

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

20. 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

22. 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

23. 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?

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

25. 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