Books written by Elfriede Hermann

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  Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

  Collecting Kamoro: Objects, Encounters and Representation on the Southwest Coast of Papua. Leiden: Sidestone Press. Jarillo de la Torre, Sergio. 2013. “Carving the Spirits of the Wood. An Enquiry into Trobriand Materialisations.

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  Belonging in Oceania: Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications

  The 'historical people' sometimes also express resentment at their belonging to the island being questioned by their differentiation from the 'traditional owners'. Interestingly, however, Palm Islanders very commonly use the term ...

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  Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania

  Let me bring this conundrum to the context of the exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, where this essay was first presented. This was a powerful example of how shifting contexts transform the meanings of objects.

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  Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania

  This work explores the processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts.

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  Changing Contexts, Shifting Meanings: Transformations of Cultural Traditions in Oceania

  This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. In a...

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  India Beyond India: Dilemmas of Belonging

  ... Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology, edited by Andrew C . Willford and Eric Tagliacozzo, 139–86 . Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press . Segal, Daniel . 1993 . “'Race' and 'Color' in Pre ...