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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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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 Mageö 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
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 Mageö 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
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