Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters -

Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

New Lives of Old Imaginaries

Jeannette Mageo, Bruce Knauft (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-054-0 (ISBN)
169,95 inkl. MwSt
Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse.
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 rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.

Jeannette Mageo is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. She has authored ten books and edited collections. Her recent research examines the collision of Samoan and European cultures and psychologies in the colonial encounter through performance art, historical photos, and colonial artifacts.

List of Illustrations



Introduction: On Authoring and Authenticity

Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft



Chapter 1. Tenues Végétales in Beauty Contests of French Polynesia: Authenticity on Islanders’ Own Terms

Joyce D. Hammond



Chapter 2. American Colonial Mimicry: Cultural Identity Fantasies and Being “Authentic” in Samoa

Jeannette Mageo



Chapter 3. Authorship, Authenticity, Anthropology: Critical Reflections across Four Decades of Work with Gebusi

Bruce Knauft



Chapter 4. Authenticity and the Garamut Slit-Drum in Papua New Guinea

Alphonse Aime



Chapter 5. The Flying Fox and the Sentiment of Being: On the Authenticity of a Papua New Guinea Rawa Tradition

Doug Dalton



Chapter 6. Digital Storytelling in the Pacific and “Ethnographic Orientalism”

Sarina Pearson



Chapter 7. Afterward -- Authoring and Authenticity: Reflections on Traveling Concepts in Oceania

Margaret Jolly



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-054-3 / 1800730543
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-054-0 / 9781800730540
Zustand Neuware
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