Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji
2017 | book part. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji
Hermann, E. (2017)
In:Mageo, Jeannette; Hermann, Elfriede (Eds.), Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations pp. 189-208. Berghahn Books. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvw04bfm.13
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- Authors
- Hermann, Elfriede
- Editors
- Mageo, Jeannette; Hermann, Elfriede
- Abstract
- n this chapter I shall consider mimesis as an integral component of transculturation. The term “transculturation,” which Fernando Ortiz ([1947] 1995) was the first to use, describes the processes of adoption, recontextualization, and reconceptualization of practices from another culture. These processes go hand in hand with social interactions and involve all interactive partners as well as the power relationships that are at play (Hermann 2011: 4). As Fernando Coronil (1995: XLI–XLIII) stresses, the concept of transculturation shines a novel light on transcultural exchange under conditions in which power is unequally shared. The concept of mimesis, as I see it,..
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Organization
- Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät ; Institut für Ethnologie
- ISBN
- 978-1-78533-625-6
978-1-78533-624-9 - Language
- English
