Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

<ul> <li> The book offers a new theory of what mimesis is and how it operates and theorizes mimesis in new contexts: in relation to history historiography cultural psychology art production tourism colonialism and other transcultural encounters.</li> <li> The book offers a unified view of mimesis in eight different cultures. Prior studies (Taussig and Harrison for example) examine mimesis mainly in one culture.</li> <li> As is evident in the Table of Contents the book approaches mimesis through a great range of topics and cases.</li> <li> The book provides answers to the controversial anthropological question as to what degree cultures are invented or authentic.</li> <li> This book is unique in asking how cultural residues in many forms reflect conversations in images between foreign visitors and indigenous peoples. It also asks how through mimesis in a wide range of mediums the colonized “look back” from their own frames of reference retain authorship and incorporate or define themselves against layers of history locale factions or foreign others.</li></ul>