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Abstract
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.
“This edited collection offers an important contribution to mimesis and its role in transcultural encounters, both in the past and present, in the Pacific region.” · Alison Dundon, University of Adelaide, Australia
Elfriede Hermann has conducted long-term research with Papua New Guineans, Banabans in Fiji and I-Kiribati, especially on identifications and belonging, emotions and historicity, ethnicity and migration, cultural transformations and the anthropology of climate change.
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIMESIS AND PACIFIC TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS | 1 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| List of Figures | 7 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 11 | ||
| Part I — Introduction | 15 | ||
| Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History | 17 | ||
| Part II — Mimesis through Time | 41 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters | 43 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa | 63 | ||
| Chapter 3 — Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with The Vanishing Race in New Zealand 1927 | 93 | ||
| Part III — Selling Mimesis: From Tourist Art to Trade Stores | 123 | ||
| Chapter 4 — Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices | 125 | ||
| Chapter 5 — Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobiand Islands | 152 | ||
| Chapter 6 — Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea | 178 | ||
| Part IV — Ritual Mimesis and Its Reconfigurations | 201 | ||
| Chapter 7 — Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji | 203 | ||
| Chapter 8 — Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders | 223 | ||
| Chapter 9 — Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millenialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea | 244 | ||
| Part V — Afterword | 269 | ||
| Afterword: \"1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles.\" Mimetic Technologies: Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories | 271 | ||
| Index | 288 |