Mimesis and Pacific transcultural encounters : making likenesses in time, trade, and ritual reconfigurations / edited by Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann.
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2017.
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| Series: | ASAO studies in pacific anthropology ;
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| Format: | Book |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Research Map
- Introduction : Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History
- PART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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
- AFTERWORD
- Chapter 10. "1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles": Mimetic Technologies, Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories; Joshua A. Bell
