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Part I – A Mimetic Theory of the Dreams -- 1.Mimesis and Dreaming: An Introduction -- 2.Mimetic Strategies of Signification in Dreams -- Chapter 3.Mimesis in the Theater of Dreams -- 4.Mimesis Makes for Ambiguity -- Part II – Competing/Complementary Theories -- 5.Mimesis Makes the Metaphors -- 6.Nightmares, Or Threat Simulation as Mimetic Commentary -- 7.Beyond Continuity and Social Simulation -- Part III – Mimesis and American Selves -- 8.The Close Family and American Cultural Psychodynamics -- 9.Mirror-phase Cultural Psychology and American Specular Selves -- 10.Dreams, Mimesis, and Consciousness.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: theorizing power and the self -- JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO AND BRUCE M. KNAUFT -- Part I Power differentials in the US -- 2 The genocidal continuum: peace-time crimes -- NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES -- 3 Intimate powers, public selves: Bakhtin's space of authoring -- WILLIAM S. LACHICOTTE -- Part II Transnational psychologies -- 4 Playing with power: morphing toys and transforming heroes in kids' mass culture -- ANNE ALLISON 7 -- 5 Consciousness of the state and the experience of self: the runaway daughter of a Turkish guest worker -- KATHERINE PRATT EWING -- Part III Colonial encounters: power/history/self -- 6 Spirit, self, and power: the making of colonial experience in Papua New Guinea -- DOUGLAS DALTON -- 7 Self models and sexual agency -- JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO -- Part IV Reading power against the grain -- 8 Eager subjects, reluctant powers: the irrelevance of ideology in a secret New Guinea male cult -- HARRIET WHITEHEAD -- 9 Feminist emotions -- CATHERINE LUTZ -- Index

Explores the role of male gender instability, resulting from negative gender identity, in fomenting violence & warfare. The idea of cultural fantasies is touched on. Focus turns to why pollution or machismo fantasies infect male gender models, offering a cross-cultural look at the character of gender models, identifying temperamental/biological & social/cosmic or role/force models. D. Edelman

This essay presents a theory about cultural systems of self. It counters disclaimers as to the possibility of building cross‐culturally valid theory, often taken to be the intellectual outcome of postmodernism. Nonetheless, such theory is a logical descendant of the postmodern project, predicating multiple selves and multiple constructions of social reality. It offers an explanatory framework for conceptions of personhood that are loosely interconnected and only partially and problematically shared between culture members.

An old adage in anthropology holds that societies perpetuate their moral codes by the manner in which people raise their children, but socialization is far more than the straightforward passing on of culture. Rather, culture acquisition is a highly conflictual process, rich in contested meanings. What other theorists have shown on the level of cultural systems, this analysis intends to show at the level of micro‐interactive processes. The article examines Samoan child‐rearing routines, subjective reactions to these routines, the manner in which these reactions are in conformity and in resistance to cultural norms, and the discourse through which Samoan society finally strives to temper the resisting subject. By taking the conflictual dimensions of the socialization process into account, the article describes and analyzes indigenous perspectives on Samoan temperament. These perspectives have the potential to reconcile certain vehement disagreements that characterize the ethnography of the self in Samoa.

Acknowledgments; Research Map Introduction : Mimesis in Theory and in Cultural History PART I: MIMESIS THROUGH TIME Chapter 1. Imitation as Relationality in Early Australian Encounters; Francesca Merlan Chapter 2. Transitional Images and Imaginaries: Dressing in Schemas in Colonial Samoa; Jeannette Mageo Chapter 3. Reel to Real: Mimesis, Playing Indian, and Touring with The Vanishing Race in New Zealand 1927; Sarina Pearson PART II: SELLING MIMESIS: FROM TOURIST ART TO TRADE STORES Chapter 4. Traditional Tahitian Weddings for Tourists: An Entwinement of Mimetic Practices; Joyce D. Hammond Chapter 5. Of Dragons and Mermaids: The Art of Mimesis in the Trobriand Islands; Sergio Jarillo de la Torre Chapter 6. Capitalism Meets Its Match: Failed Mimesis of Market Economics among the Asabano of Papua New Guinea; Roger Ivar Lohmann PART III: RITUAL MIMESIS AND ITS RECONFIGURATIONS Chapter 7. Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation:Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji; Elfriede Hermann Chapter 8. Mimesis and Reimagining Identity among Marshall Islanders; Laurence Marshall Carucci Chapter 9. Anthropology, Christianity, and the Colonial Impasse: Rawa Mimesis, Millennialism, and Modernity in the Finisterre Mountains of Papua New Guinea; Doug Dalton AFTERWORD Chapter 10. "1 Lot Magic Sticks 6 Bundles": Mimetic Technologies, Their Intimacies and Intersecting Histories; Joshua A. Bell

"Attachment theory has massively influenced contemporary psychology, primarily from an American perspective. However, the anthropological criticism of ethnocentrism has wider implications for the discipline of psychology, which often unintentionally introduces psychologists' culturally biased assumptions into theory intended to be general, and is so devoted to culturally decontextualized experimental procedures that fail to challenge this ethnocentrism. Thus the current volume is not only challenge to attachment theorists, but also an object lesson for psychologists of many other stripes. Beyond simply a Euro-American perspective, attachment theory must be contextualized by examining it through local meanings and childrearing practices, along with cultural models of virtue and psychodynamics, all of which are best discovered through ethnography. The contributors expand this critique beyond questions of classification and measurement, to question the cultural assumptions and extend this line of questioning to other ethnocentric concepts"--