Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology (Hardback)

"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 Enlightenment. Their agenda is ambitious and intellectually challenging ... a must-read for everyone interested in cultural change and the concept of authenticity." * Anthropos