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Authors: Jeannette Mageo
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collectio
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Jeannette Mageo
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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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
The Mimetic Nature of Dream Mentation: American Selves in Re-formation
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-12 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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Based on over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to cognitive anthropology, to perspectives in the humanities on mimesis, ambiguity, and met
Pacific Youth
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Pacific populations are becoming younger and this ‘youth bulge’ is often perceived as a dangerous precursor to civil unrest. Yet young people are also a val
Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939
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This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with crick