List of Illustrations

Introduction: On Authoring and Authenticity
Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft

Chapter 1. Tenues Végétales in Beauty Contests of French Polynesia: Authenticity on Islanders' Own Terms
Joyce D. Hammond

Chapter 2. American Colonial Mimicry: Cultural Identity Fantasies and Being "Authentic" in Samoa
Jeannette Mageo

Chapter 3. Authorship, Authenticity, Anthropology: Critical Reflections across Four Decades of Work with Gebusi
Bruce Knauft

Chapter 4. Authenticity and the Garamut Slit-Drum in Papua New Guinea
Alphonse Aime

Chapter 5. The Flying Fox and the Sentiment of Being: On the Authenticity of a Papua New Guinea Rawa Tradition
Doug Dalton

Chapter 6. Digital Storytelling in the Pacific and "Ethnographic Orientalism"
Sarina Pearson

Chapter 7. Afterward -- Authoring and Authenticity: Reflections on Traveling Concepts in Oceania
Margaret Jolly

Index

Bruce Knauft is Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. He is the author of nine books and edited collections, and has, in addition to Papua New Guinea, worked in East and West Africa, Mongolia, Myanmar, India, and Tibet.