• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters : Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
  • Enthält: Frontmatter
    Contents
    List of Figures
    List of Figures
    Map
    PART I. Introduction
    Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History
    PART II. Mimesis through Time
    Chapter 1. Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters
    Chapter 2. Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa
    Chapter 3. Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with Th e Vanishing Race in New Zealand 1927
    PART III. Selling Mimesis: From Tourist Art to Trade Stores
    Chapter 4. Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices
    Chapter 5. Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobriand Islands
    Chapter 6. Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea
    PART IV. Ritual Mimesis and Its Reconfigurations
    Chapter 7. Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji
    Chapter 8. Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders
    Chapter 9. Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millennialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea
    PART V. Afterword
    “1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles.” Mimetic Technologies: Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories
    Index
  • Beteiligte: Bell, Joshua A. [Mitwirkende:r]; Dalton, Doug [Mitwirkende:r]; Hammond, Joyce D. [Mitwirkende:r]; Hermann, Elfriede [Mitwirkende:r]; Hermann, Elfriede [Herausgeber:in]; Jarillo de la Torre, Sergio [Mitwirkende:r]; Lohmann, Roger Ivar [Mitwirkende:r]; Mageo, Jeannette [Mitwirkende:r]; Mageo, Jeannette [Herausgeber:in]; Marshall Carucci, Laurence [Mitwirkende:r]; Merlan, Francesca [Mitwirkende:r]; Pearson, Sarina [Mitwirkende:r]
  • Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2017]
  • Erschienen in: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 8
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (292 p.)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781785336256
  • ISBN: 9781785336256
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  • RVK-Notation: LB 48675 : Australien, Neuseeland, Ozeanien insgesamt
  • Schlagwörter: Ethnology Oceania ; Pacific Islanders Cultural assimilation ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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  • Anmerkungen: In English
  • Beschreibung: 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
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