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Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters
Vanessa Smith
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Description for Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters
paperback. A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific. Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JF; HBJM; HBLL; HBTQ; RGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 532.
When 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 ... Read more
When 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Critical Perspectives on Empire
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521728782
SKU
V9780521728782
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About Vanessa Smith
Vanessa Smith teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters (1998) and co-editor of Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology 1680–1900 (2000) and Islands in History and Representation (2003).
Reviews for Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters
''Friendship' looms large in stories of early encounters in the Pacific, but up until now has been unanalysed, and seemed unanalysable. This is a genuinely cross-disciplinary study, animated by an impressive understanding of anthropological sources and early voyage texts; it gives us a fresh understanding of foundational moments in the modern history of empire and global interaction.' Nicholas Thomas, University ... Read more