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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Main Author:	Smith, Vanessa
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:	Critical perspectives on empire.
Subjects:	Friendship > Oceania. Friendship > Great Britain. East and West.
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