Episode 15: Food and Identity in Melanesia Part 1

Episode 15: Food and Identity in Melanesia Part 1

Dr. Mere Tari Sovick and Kirk Huffman

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In this 2 part series on FOOD with our guest, Kirk Huffman, we discuss food in Melanesia. We look at food from two different lenses. Part 1 of the episode, we focus on Food and identity and in the 2nd episode, we look at the Cultural relationship between food and Women and Men of Vanuatu.

In this first part about Food and Identity in the Pacific, particularly in the Melanesia region of the Pacific, Kirk Huffman and I talk about the essentials of Aelan Kakae or Island Food where we dive into the different areas of food associated with the livelihood of people in pertaining to not just diet but also with identity, spiritual food, and food closely associated with women and men in ritual ceremony.