Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Smith, Vanessa

Title Intimate strangers : friendship, exchange and Pacific encounters / Vanessa Smith
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical perspectives on empire
Critical perspectives on empire.
Contents Introduction: amicable signs -- Part I. Making Contact -- 1. Crowd scenes -- 2. Receiving strangers -- 3. Calculated affection -- 4. Performance anxieties -- Part II. Particular Friendships -- 5. Fellow traveling -- 6. Ruinous friendships -- 7. Prizeable companions
Summary "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 de Bougainville and other European voyagers consistently to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friendship. Her book encompasses forty years of encounter 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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Friendship -- Oceania
Friendship -- Great Britain
East and West.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
East and West
Friendship
Kulturkontakt
Freundschaft
Intercultural communication.
Freundschaft.
Kulturkontakt.
Entdecker.
Interkulturell kommunikation.
Vänskap -- historia -- Oceanien -- 1700-talet.
Vänskap -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1700-talet.
Great Britain
Oceania
Ozeanien
Großbritannien
Briten.
Ozeanien.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139775748
113977574X
1139781774
9781139781770
9780511763021
0511763026
9781139778787
1139778781
1139793160
9781139793162
1316087093
9781316087091
1107253381
9781107253384
1283715678
9781283715676
1139777262
9781139777261