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Oceanic encounters : exchange, desire, violence
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- Creator
- edited by Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff & Darrell Tryon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, maps
- text file
- ISBNs
- 9781921536281, 1921536284, 9781921536281
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also available in print form.
- English
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; List of abbreviations and acronyms; Oceanic Encounters: A Prelude; Prior Indigenous Encounters: Language, Culture and Power; Before the Brush of Bodies - European Visions; Oceanic Visions; Double Visions and Alternative Senses; The Passage of Time: Contingent Chronologies, Not Teleological Temporality; The Unsettled Ground of Knowing: Histories and Ethnographies; Reading "Against the Grain": Partial Truths?; Graphic Materialities and the Violence of Exchange; The Place and Time of Oceania; References; FILMOGRAPHY
- Linguistic Encounter and Responses in the South PacificIntroduction; Language Distribution in the Pacific; The Vectors of Pacific Encounters with Outsiders; Pre-Contact Encounters and Linguistic Responses; Post-Contact Encounters and Linguistic Responses; Globalisation and the Modern World; References; The Sediment of Voyages: Re-membering Quirós, Bougainville and Cook in Vanuatu; Introduction: An Archipelago of Names; First Contact and the Beach: The Limen of Colonialism; Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 1606: Salvation, Treasure and Phantasmagoria?
- The "Season of Observing": Nature, Enlightened Explorations and Imperial PowerLouis de Bougainville, A Voyage Round The World, 1768: "Such an Abuse of the Superiority of our Power"; Captain James Cook, 1774 - Distantiation or Incorporation of the "Other"?; "Monboddo's Monkeys" and the "Ghosts of their Forebears"; Green Boughs, Salt Water and Tumora, Towmarro; Pacifying Exchanges and "The Power of our Jus Canonicum"; On the Beach, Unsettled Colonies and "Dancing With Strangers"; References
- A Reconsideration of the Role of Polynesian Women in Early Encounters with Europeans: Supplement to Marshall Sahlins' Voyage around the Islands of HistoryWestern "Knowledge" About Pre-Christian Samoan and Tahitian "Customs" Relating to Adolescence and Marriage; Samoa; Tahiti; Samoan Facts: The Scene Observed by La Pérouse; Internal distinction: Description and interpretation; Ethnographic analysis and extrapolating backward; The "girls" and the "sacrifice": Comparison with Samoan ceremonies of the period 1830-1850; "The blinds lowered": Comparison with ethnography of the 1930s to 1980s
- The presence of the "women" and "very young girls"Tahitian Facts: The Scenes of April 7-9 (According to Nassau and Fesche); Nassau, April 7, 1768; Fesche on April 7; In the following days: Bougainville and Nassau; "Tahitian Marriages" (Fesche); A forced encounter; The youth of the victims and the ceremonial framework; The question of virginity in the French accounts: The girls' very young age, deflowering and tears; "Without Asking For Any Reward": From Ritual to Sexual Commerce (Fesche); Beyond Tahiti And Samoa: Also Forced Presentations of Young Girls?
- The explicit nature of the French journals