Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

Jeannette Mageo, Elfriede Hermann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-624-9 (ISBN)

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How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.

Jeannette Mageo is a psychological anthropologist. Her work focuses on how subjectivity, identity, and emotion evolve out of cultural and historical experiences. Since 1980, she has been involved in research and publication on Samoan culture, history, and psychology.

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Acknowledgments

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History

Jeanette Mageo

PART II: MIMESIS THROUGH TIME

Chapter 1.  Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters

Francesca Merlan

Chapter 2. Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa

Jeannette Mageo 

Chapter 3.  Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with The Vanishing Race  in New Zealand 1927

Sarina Pearson

PART III: SELLING MIMESIS: FROM TOURIST ART TO TRADE STORES

Chapter 4. Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices

Joyce D. Hammond

Chapter 5.  Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobriand Islands

Sergio Jarillo de la Torre

Chapter 6.  Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano  of Papua New Guinea

Roger Ivar Lohmann

PART IV: RITUAL MIMESIS AND ITS RECONFIGURATIONS

Chapter 7. Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji

Elfriede Hermann

Chapter 8. Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders

Laurence Marshall Carucci 

Chapter 9.  Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millennialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea

Doug Dalton

PART V: AFTERWORD

“1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles”: Mimetic Technologies, Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories

Joshua A. Bell 

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78533-624-X / 178533624X
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-624-9 / 9781785336249
Zustand	Neuware