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Intimate Strangers - Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters (Hardcover)
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Intimate Strangers - Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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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 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.
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