Monetary income, public funds, and subsistence consumption: the three components of the food supply in French Polynesia—a comparative study of Tahiti and Rapa Iti islands

Christophe Serra Mallol ()
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Christophe Serra Mallol: Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures, Isthia, 5, allée Antonio Machado, Cedex 09, 31058 Toulouse,France

Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2018, vol. 99, issue 1, 37-55

Abstract: The question of the impact of food supplyon food practices rises in a particularsociocultural environment—French Polynesia, an overseas territory—forged by a politicaland economic post-colonial system inferring a triple modality of food resources: monetaryincomes, public funds, and subsistence consumption. The comparison between twoPolynesian islands, Tahiti mostly central and urban and Rapa mostly peripheric and rural,highlights the variability of intracommunity food exchanges and symbolized socialmeanings. Rapa’s choice of food resources collective control is readable through theimportance of gifts, exchanges, and pooling food flows. The dimension of subsistenceconsumption, re-embedded in specific social temporality, allows local implementation ofan integrated model of resource management.

Keywords: French; Polynesia.Sociology; of; food.Socio-techno-cultural; system.Oceania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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