02165nam a22003498a 4500 CR9780511763021 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100506s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511763021 (ebook) 9780521437516 (hardback) 9780521728782 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda BF575.F66 S625 2010 303.48/24096 22 Smith, Vanessa, author. Intimate Strangers : Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters / [electronic resource] Vanessa Smith. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Critical Perspectives on Empire Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. East and West Print version: 9780521437516 Critical Perspectives on Empire. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511763021 Cambridge Books Online 236437 236437