Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

Edited by: Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann

Volume 8 in the series ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785336256

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Elfriede Hermann has conducted long-term research with Papua New Guineans, Banabans in Fiji and I-Kiribati, especially on identifications and belonging, emotions and historicity, ethnicity and migration, cultural transformations and the anthropology of climate change.

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.

Reviews

“Anthropologists, as scholars and teachers, should welcome these analyses, as mimesis is at the core of our foundational ethnographic method, participant observation, and also is a popular strategy of hands-on, experiential learning within classrooms. As Bell concludes, ‘mimesis is profoundly engaging anthropologically because of issues it raises about the nature of cross-culture engagement’. Anthropologist see, anthropologist do.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

“…a rich and nuanced thesaurus of instances of mimesis. Common themes are developed across the chapters, skilfully knit together in the Afterword penned by Bell…The impressive internal coherence of the volume and the questions it generates encourage an engagement with this publication beyond its regional specificity.” • Anthropos

“This edited collection offers an important contribution to mimesis and its role in transcultural encounters, both in the past and present, in the Pacific region.” • Alison Dundon, University of Adelaide, Australia

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Map Publicly Available Download PDF	XII
PART I. Introduction
Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History Jeannette Mageo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART II. Mimesis through Time
Chapter 1. Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters Francesca Merlan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 2. Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa Jeannette Mageo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 3. Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with Th e Vanishing Race in New Zealand 1927 Sarina Pearson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 5. Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobriand Islands Sergio Jarillo de la Torre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 6. Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea Roger Ivar Lohmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
PART IV. Ritual Mimesis and Its Reconfigurations
Chapter 7. Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji Elfriede Hermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 8. Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders Laurence Marshall Carucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Chapter 9. Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millennialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea Doug Dalton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
PART V. Afterword
“1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles.” Mimetic Technologies: Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories Joshua A. Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 292
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Cultural Studies (General)

eBook

Published: October 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785336256