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

Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 2018, vol. 99, issue 1, No 3, 37-55

Abstract: Abstract The question of the impact of food supply on food practices rises in a particular sociocultural environment—French Polynesia, an overseas territory—forged by a political and economic post-colonial system inferring a triple modality of food resources: monetary incomes, public funds, and subsistence consumption. The comparison between two Polynesian islands, Tahiti mostly central and urban and Rapa mostly peripheric and rural, highlights the variability of intracommunity food exchanges and symbolized social meanings. Rapa’s choice of food resources collective control is readable through the importance of gifts, exchanges, and pooling food flows. The dimension of subsistence consumption, re-embedded in specific social temporality, allows local implementation of an 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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