Within a framework of politicized revitalization of culture, conceptions of “the real,” of authenticity, are omnipresent in Vanuatu. Ancient ritual is reenacted in cultural festivals that take place in several locations throughout the archipelago in a context of cultural revival as well as tourism. Based on fieldwork in Vanuatu in 2008–2009, in this paper I discuss the encounter between the self-declared primitive and the tourist. In a bricolage of ritual that is put on, both the strange and the familiar intervene, in the form of cannibal—as well as paradise—imaginaries. In most islands, this results in different ways of knowing and different discourses, which in turn generate discussions among local people about what it means to revive culture. People negotiate notions of “the real,” of the authenticity of their actions, and disagree about whether their culture is familiar or strange to themselves while at the same time offering it to outsiders.

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天堂中的食人族：瓦努阿图的异国情调、熟悉和奇怪的仪式和表演

在文化的政治化复兴框架内，“真实”、真实性的概念在瓦努阿图无处不在。在文化复兴和旅游的背景下，在整个群岛的几个地方举行的文化节上，古老的仪式被重演。基于 2008-2009 年在瓦努阿图的田野调查，我在本文中讨论了自称原始人与游客之间的相遇。在一场仪式的拼凑中，陌生的和熟悉的都介入了，以食人者的形式——以及天堂——的想象。在大多数岛屿，这会导致不同的认识方式和不同的话语，进而引发当地人之间关于复兴文化意味着什么的讨论。人们协商“真实”的概念，他们行为的真实性，