Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

by Vanessa Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521728789
• ISBN13: 9780521728782
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"