Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters by Jeannette Mageo

Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters by Jeannette Mageo

Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as traveling concepts that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse.

“This is a fine collection of essays about the vexed question of what constitutes authenticity, how it relates to authorship, and, most importantly, how these concepts have travelled in cultural exchanges between Western and Pacific societies…The theoretical questions that are examined in this collection are presented in a substantial introduction by the editors, in which they situate their enquiry not only against the backdrop of Pacific anthropology, but also in a wider perspective on the subject of change in European philosophy since the EnlightenmentTheir agenda is ambitious and intellectually challenging … a must-read for everyone interested in cultural change and the concept of authenticity.” • Anthropos

Jeannette Mageo is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. She has authored ten books and edited collections. Her recent research examines the collision of Samoan and European cultures and psychologies in the colonial encounter through performance art, historical photos, and colonial artifacts.

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ISBN 13	9781800730540
ISBN 10	1800730543
Title	Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
Author	Jeannette Mageo
Series	Asao Studies In Pacific Anthropology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Berghahn Books
Year published	2021-04-01
Number of pages	246
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