Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

New Lives of Old Imaginaries
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-054-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Reihe: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mageo, Jeannette

Knauft, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: On Authoring and Authenticity

Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft

Chapter 1. Tenues Végétales in Beauty Contests of French Polynesia: Authenticity on Islanders’ Own Terms

Joyce D. Hammond

Chapter 2. American Colonial Mimicry: Cultural Identity Fantasies and Being “Authentic” in Samoa

Jeannette Mageo

Chapter 3. Authorship, Authenticity, Anthropology: Critical Reflections across Four Decades of Work with Gebusi

Bruce Knauft

Chapter 4. Authenticity and the Garamut Slit-Drum in Papua New Guinea

Alphonse Aime

Chapter 5. The Flying Fox and the Sentiment of Being: On the Authenticity of a Papua New Guinea Rawa Tradition

Doug Dalton

Chapter 6. Digital Storytelling in the Pacific and “Ethnographic Orientalism”

Sarina Pearson

Chapter 7. Afterward -- Authoring and Authenticity: Reflections on Traveling Concepts in Oceania

Margaret Jolly

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Knauft, Bruce
Bruce Knauft is Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. He is the author of nine books and edited collections, and has, in addition to Papua New Guinea, worked in East and West Africa, Mongolia, Myanmar, India, and Tibet.

Mageo, Jeannette
Jeannette Mageo is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. She has authored ten books and edited collections. Her recent research examines the collision of Samoan and European cultures and psychologies in the colonial encounter through performance art, historical photos, and colonial artifacts.

Jeannette Mageo is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. She has authored ten books and edited collections. Her recent research examines the collision of Samoan and European cultures and psychologies in the colonial encounter through performance art, historical photos, and colonial artifacts.