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Authenticity and authorship in Pacific island encounters : new lives of old imaginaries /

"The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six ric...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mageo, Jeannette Marie, 1947- (Editor ), Knauft, Bruce M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
Colección:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; volume 11
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Tenues végétales in beauty contests of French Polynesia : authenticity on islanders' own terms / Joyce D. Hammond
  • American colonial mimicry : cultural identity fantasies and being "authentic" in Samoa / Jeanette Mageo
  • Critical reflections across four decades of work with Gebusi : authorship, authenticity, anthropology / Bruce Knauft
  • Recovering authenticity : Garamut (slit-drums) among Kayan people, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea / Alphonse Aime
  • The flying fox and the sentiment of being : on the authenticity of a Papua New Guinea Rawa tradition / Doug Dalton
  • Digital storytelling in the Pacific and "ethnographic orientalism" / Sarina Pearon and Shuchi Kothari
  • Afterword. Authoring and authenticity : reflections on traveling concepts in Oceania / Margaret Jolly.