Vanessa Smith

Intimate Strangers (eBook, ePUB)

Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139793162
• Artikelnr.: 52924858

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Hedwig Smith is a painter, filmmaker, and writer who has lived and worked in India, Nepal, England, and the US. She has worked on feature-length documentaries, shorts, PSAs, music videos, outdoor installations, murals, and other design projects. Smith produced a BBC Correspondent which helped free a 14-year old girl from prison, helped to change Nepalese law, and won the Amnesty International Media 2000 Award. She holds a BA from Stanford in Urban Design, and an MA from Columbia University in Anthropology. Her work can be seen at http://vanessahsmithpictures.com

Inhaltsangabe

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.