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Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters : New Lives of Old Imaginaries / ed. by Jeannette Mageo, Bruce Knauft.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 11Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800730540
  • 9781800730557
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 995 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • DU28
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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