Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-624-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mageo, Jeannette

Hermann, Elfriede

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mageo, Jeannette
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.

Hermann, Elfriede
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.