Authenticity and authorship in Pacific island encounters : new lives of old imaginaries / edited by Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mageo, Jeannette Marie, 1947- editor.

Knauft, Bruce M., editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; volume 11.

ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authenticity (Philosophy).

Oceania--Civilization.

Oceania.

Civilization.

Ethnology--Oceania.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: Tenues végétales in beauty contests of French Polynesia : authenticity on islanders' own terms / Joyce D. Hammond

American colonial mimicry : cultural identity fantasies and being "authentic" in Samoa / Jeanette Mageo

Critical reflections across four decades of work with Gebusi : authorship, authenticity, anthropology / Bruce Knauft

Recovering authenticity : Garamut (slit-drums) among Kayan people, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea / Alphonse Aime

The flying fox and the sentiment of being : on the authenticity of a Papua New Guinea Rawa tradition / Doug Dalton

Digital storytelling in the Pacific and "ethnographic orientalism" / Sarina Pearon and Shuchi Kothari

Afterword. Authoring and authenticity : reflections on traveling concepts in Oceania / Margaret Jolly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Authenticity and authorship in Pacific island encounters

ISBN:

9781800730557

1800730551

Publisher Number:

40030488986

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.