Full Description
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.
Contents
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
