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020 _a9780511763021 (ebook)
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050 0 0 _aBF575.F66
_bS625 2010
082 0 0 _a303.48/24096
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100 1 _aSmith, Vanessa,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aIntimate Strangers :
_bFriendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters / [electronic resource]
_cVanessa Smith.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (336 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCritical Perspectives on Empire
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _aWhen Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.
650 0 _aEast and West
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521437516
830 0 _aCritical Perspectives on Empire.
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763021
_zCambridge Books Online
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_d236437