Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
Herausgeber: Mageo, Jeannette; Hermann, Elfriede

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Produktbeschreibung

The book offers a new theory of what mimesis is and how it operates and theorizes mimesis in new contexts: in relation to history, historiography, cultural psychology, art production, tourism, colonialism, and other transcultural encounters. The book offers a unified view of mimesis in eight different cultures. Prior studies (Taussig and Harrison for example) examine mimesis mainly in one culture. As is evident in the Table of Contents, the book approaches mimesis through a great range of topics and cases. The book provides answers to the controversial anthropological question as to what degree cultures are invented or authentic. This book is unique in asking how cultural residues in many forms reflect conversations in images between foreign visitors and indigenous peoples. It also asks how, through mimesis in a wide range of mediums, the colonized "look back" from their own frames of reference, retain authorship, and incorporate or define themselves against layers of history, locale factions, or foreign others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781785336249
• ISBN-10: 178533624X
• Artikelnr.: 48031396

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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