Intimate strangers : friendship, exchange and Pacific encounters /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Vanessa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Critical perspectives on empire.
Temas:
Friendship > Oceania.
Friendship > Great Britain.
East and West.
Amitié > Océanie.
Amitié > Grande-Bretagne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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