{"product_id":"mimesis-and-pacific-transcultural-encounters-making-likenesses-in-time-trade-and-ritual-reconfigurations-9781785336249","title":"Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Anthropologists, as scholars and teachers, should welcome these analyses, as mimesis is at the core of our foundational ethnographic method, participant observation, and also is a popular strategy of hands-on, experiential learning within classrooms. As Bell concludes, ‘mimesis is profoundly engaging anthropologically because of issues it raises about the nature of cross-culture engagement’. Anthropologist see, anthropologist do.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…a rich and nuanced thesaurus of instances of mimesis. Common themes are developed across the chapters, skilfully knit together in the Afterword penned by Bell…The impressive internal coherence of the volume and the questions it generates encourage an engagement with this publication beyond its regional specificity.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Anthropos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Alison Dundon\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Adelaide, Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: INTRODUCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeanette Mageo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: MIMESIS THROUGH TIME\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u2028Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrancesca Merlan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeannette Mageo\u2028\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u2028Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with \u003cem\u003eThe Vanishing Race\u003c\/em\u003e \u2028in New Zealand 1927\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarina Pearson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: SELLING MIMESIS: FROM TOURIST ART TO TRADE STORES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoyce D. Hammond\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u2028Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobriand Islands\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSergio Jarillo de la Torre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u2028Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano \u2028of Papua New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRoger Ivar Lohmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: RITUAL MIMESIS AND ITS RECONFIGURATIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation:\u2028Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElfriede Hermann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLaurence Marshall Carucci\u2028\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u2028Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millennialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDoug Dalton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART V: AFTERWORD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles”: Mimetic Technologies, Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoshua A. Bell\u2028\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042399650135,"sku":"9781785336249","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mimesis-and-pacific-transcultural-encounters-making-likenesses-in-time-trade-and-ritual-reconfigurations-9781785336249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}