Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Author :
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 292
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781785336256
ISBN-13 : 1785336258
Rating : 4/5 (258 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters by : Jeannette Mageo

Download or read book Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters written by Jeannette Mageo and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.


Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters Related Books

Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Jeannette Mageo
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collectio
New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Jeannette Mageo
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-08 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

This book presents new directions in contemporary anthropological dream research, surveying recent theorizations of dreaming that are developing both in and out
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Jeannette Mageo
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and
In Memory of Times to Come
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Melissa Demian
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-11 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. Suau people enco
Enacted Relations
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Franca Tamisari
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-05 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

GET EBOOK

The Yolngu Indigenous people in the Northeast Arnhem Land of Australia respond to neo-colonial challenges by continuing to affirm their political autonomy and t