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 Mageö

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

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.

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.