“Anthropologists, as scholars and teachers, should welcome these analyses, as mimesis is at the core of our foundational ethnographic method, participant observation, and also is a popular strategy of hands-on, experiential learning within classrooms. As Bell concludes, ‘mimesis is profoundly engaging anthropologically because of issues it raises about the nature of cross-culture engagement’. Anthropologist see, anthropologist do.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

“…a rich and nuanced thesaurus of instances of mimesis. Common themes are developed across the chapters, skilfully knit together in the Afterword penned by Bell…The impressive internal coherence of the volume and the questions it generates encourage an engagement with this publication beyond its regional specificity.” • Anthropos

“This edited collection offers an important contribution to mimesis and its role in transcultural encounters, both in the past and present, in the Pacific region.” • Alison Dundon, University of Adelaide, Australia

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.

Series: Volume 8, ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Asia-Pacific

LC: GN662 .M48 2017

BL: DRT ELD.DS.176839

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC005000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Customs & Traditions; SOC026040 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Social Theory

BIC: JFC Cultural studies; JFFP Social interaction