LEADER 03346nam 2200505 450 001 9910796532003321 005 20230525000736.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785336256 035 $a(CKB)4100000000775737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5010716 035 $a(DE-B1597)637315 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785336256 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000775737 100 $a20171111h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aMimesis and Pacific transcultural encounters $emaking likenesses in time, trade, and ritual reconfigurations /$fedited by Jeannette Mageo and Elfriede Hermann 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (292 pages) $cillustrations, (some color), maps 225 1 $aASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-78533-625-8 311 $a1-78533-624-X 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tList of Figures --$tMap --$tPART I. Introduction --$tIntroduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History --$tPART II. Mimesis through Time --$tChapter 1. Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters --$tChapter 2. Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa --$tChapter 3. Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with Th e Vanishing Race in New Zealand 1927 --$tPART III. Selling Mimesis: From Tourist Art to Trade Stores --$tChapter 4. Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices --$tChapter 5. Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobriand Islands --$tChapter 6. Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea --$tPART IV. Ritual Mimesis and Its Reconfigurations --$tChapter 7. Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji --$tChapter 8. Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders --$tChapter 9. Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millennialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea --$tPART V. Afterword --$t?1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles.? Mimetic Technologies: Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories --$tIndex 330 $aHow do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities. 410 0$aASAO studies in Pacific anthropology. 606 $aEthnology$zOceania 606 $aPacific Islanders$xCultural assimilation 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aPacific Islanders$xCultural assimilation. 676 $a306.0995 686 $aLB 48675$qSEPA$2rvk 702 $aHermann$b Elfriede 702 $aMageo$b Jeannette Marie$f1947- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796532003321 996 $aMimesis and Pacific transcultural encounters$93835964 997 $aUNINA