Intimate strangers : friendship, exchange and Pacific encounters / Vanessa Smith.
"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 Europea...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 323 pages : illustrations |
| Format: | Book |
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