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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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Smith, Vanessa.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Critical perspectives on empire.
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