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Mimesis and Pacific transcultural encounters : making likenesses in time, trade, and ritual reconfigurations /
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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
[2017]
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| Colección: | ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Research Map Introduction : Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History PART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 AFTERWORD Chapter 10. "1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles": Mimetic Technologies, Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories; Joshua A. Bell