ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters : : New Lives of Old Imaginaries / / ed. by Jeannette Mageo, Bruce Knauft.
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 comp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction. On Authoring and Authenticity
- Chapter 1. Tenues Végétales in Beauty Contests of French Polynesia: Authenticity on Islanders’ Own Terms
- Chapter 2. American Colonial Mimicry: Cultural Identity Fantasies and Being “Authentic” in Samoa
- Chapter 3. Critical Reflections across Four Decades of Work with Gebusi: Authorship, Authenticity, Anthropology
- Chapter 4. Recovering Authenticity: Garamut (Slit-Drums) among Kayan People, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
- Chapter 5. Th e Flying Fox and the Sentiment of Being: On the Authenticity of a Papua New Guinea Rawa Tradition
- Chapter 6. Digital Storytelling in the Pacific and “Ethnographic Orientalism”
- Afterword. Authoring and Authenticity: Reflections on Traveling Concepts in Oceania
- Index