Jeannette Mageo & Elfriede Hermann 
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters [PDF ebook] 
Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Introduction: Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History
Jeanette Mageo

PART II: MIMESIS THROUGH TIME

Chapter 1. 
Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters
Francesca Merlan

Chapter 2. Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa
Jeannette Mageo


Chapter 3. 
Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with The Vanishing Race 
in New Zealand 1927
Sarina Pearson

PART III: SELLING MIMESIS: FROM TOURIST ART TO TRADE STORES

Chapter 4. Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices
Joyce D. Hammond

Chapter 5. 
Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobriand Islands
Sergio Jarillo de la Torre

Chapter 6. 
Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano 
of Papua New Guinea
Roger Ivar Lohmann

PART IV: RITUAL MIMESIS AND ITS RECONFIGURATIONS

Chapter 7. Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation:
Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji
Elfriede Hermann

Chapter 8. Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders
Laurence Marshall Carucci


Chapter 9. 
Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millennialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea
Doug Dalton

PART V: AFTERWORD

“1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles”: Mimetic Technologies, Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories
Joshua A. Bell


Index

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.