Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Introduction. On Authoring and Authenticity 1
5. Chapter 1. Tenues Végétales in Beauty Contests of French Polynesia: Authenticity on Islanders’ Own Terms 39
6. Chapter 2. American Colonial Mimicry: Cultural Identity Fantasies and Being “Authentic” in Samoa 71
7. Chapter 3. Critical Reflections across Four Decades of Work with Gebusi: Authorship, Authenticity, Anthropology 105
8. Chapter 4. Recovering Authenticity: Garamut (Slit-Drums) among Kayan People, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea 137
9. Chapter 5. Th e Flying Fox and the Sentiment of Being: On the Authenticity of a Papua New Guinea Rawa Tradition 161
10. Chapter 6. Digital Storytelling in the Pacific and “Ethnographic Orientalism” 184
11. Afterword. Authoring and Authenticity: Reflections on Traveling Concepts in Oceania 205
12. Index 233