PAPUA

Question 1

Smart & Smart paper -

Answer 1

Tangled up in Food

Question 2

S&S - Why did Europe search South Pacific?

Answer 2

• to fill trade deficit with China

Question 3

S&S - before lamb and mutton flaps, what was sold in Papua?

Answer 3

Biscuit

Question 4

S&S - Why did Papuan highlanders try to obtain technology?

Answer 4

To change outsiders’ perspectives of them

Question 5

S&S - What is “the dog movement” in Papua?

Answer 5

Locals observed feeling “like dogs” in the eyes of foreigners

Question 6

S&S - Why did it become normal to leave the small town for the village?

Answer 6

Parents embarrassed and wanted kids to have better schooling.

Question 7

S&S - the “brain drain” from small towns only -

Answer 7

makes slums in the inner city

Question 8

S&S - most culminating result of contact with whiteness?

Answer 8

in the end, dependency on lower quality food products

Question 9

S&S - neo lib and western pressures changed traditions, even -

Answer 9

black magic

Question 10

S&S - Canning factories located -

Answer 10

outside of villages, so that lower wages paid

Question 11

S&S - end result of contact with whiteness

Answer 11

more diabetes

Question 12

Errington, Gewertz, Fujikura -

Answer 12

“Noodle Narratives”

Question 13

“Noodle Narratives” authors -

Answer 13

Errington, Gewertz, Fujikura

Question 14

Errington, et al. - PPP

Answer 14

Popularly Positioned Products

Question 15

Errington, et al. - BOP

Answer 15

bottom of pyramid

Question 16

Errington, et al. - notes problem with introducing two soaps in India -

Answer 16

• too divisive. Protested. Why should even SCENT become classist and status symbol?

Question 17

Errington, et al. - Creating consumers and markets is a done deal.

Answer 17

No. Continuous work. Open reciprocity. If Nestle does nothing to give back / intro new products / they get overtaken.

Question 18

McMichael - FR?

Answer 18

Food Regimes

Question 19

McMichael - THREE FOOD REGIMES (FR) - first food regime

Answer 19

1 > telegraph / new tech in grain & meat prod / mechanization / scouring South Pacific for deficit with China

Question 20

McMichael - 3 food regimes (FR) 2nd =

Answer 20

Era of Decol / aid and “development” / machines / pesticides / seeds / subsidized by aid

Question 21

McMichael - 3 food regimes (FR) 3rd =

Answer 21

“free trade” / cut backs allowing privatization / dispossessed farmers become indentures workers / creating BOP / “if poor countries take shit food from us, you can’t say it’s immoral”

Question 22

McMichael - if Tonga too vocal about “turkey tails” or “flaps” =

Answer 22

OUT OF WTO

Question 23

10 Min Video - on what island (most damaged island ever) -

Answer 23

Nauru

Question 24

10 Min Video - Nauru island - devistated, dependent on imports, ____ is cheaper than ___

Answer 24

soda cheaper than water

Question 25

Video 2 - “missionaries of food” - “walkabout -“

Answer 25

marketing”

Question 26

Video 2 - “missionaries of food” - what do locals do to try and “show up” these “salespeople of Western products”?

Answer 26

Make terrific wigs and dance.

Question 27

“Missionaries of food” - “I will teach my kids to -“

Answer 27

“discard Western traditions as we discard our fathers’ bad habits”

Question 28

Gewertz & Errington - name of paper?

Answer 28

PNG’s flaps

Question 29

Gewertz & Errington - Why PNG spend money on flaps?

Answer 29

Because jobs keep them busy.

Question 30

Gewertz & Errington - Nutrition is a priority in PNG

Answer 30

No. Malaria, HIV, etc., these are priorities.

Question 31

Errington & Gewertz - 2nd paper title?

Answer 31

Instant Noodles for the BOP in PNG

Question 32

Errington & Gewertz - Prahalad and London’s opinion about BOP?

Answer 32

BOP = a huge opportunity / 4 billion people living on less than $2 / day

Question 33

Errington & Gewertz - Instant noodles price compared to rice?

Answer 33

More expensive, per gram and per calorie.

Question 34

Errington & Gewertz - What is “BOP-izing”?

Answer 34

Through socialization, women in Church groups learn about “3 meals a day” and Nestle agenda

Question 35

Smart & Smart (Tangled) - whose idea was “moral economy”?

Answer 35

E.P. Thompson

Question 36

Smart & Smart - how does “moral economy” apply to products?

Answer 36

Cannot question one without questioning all.

Question 37

Smart & Smart ~ What is the moral economy of fatty meats?

Answer 37

If an impoverished people have need for something, it is immoral to withhold it.