Oceanic encounters : exchange, desire, violence / edited by Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff & Darrell Tryon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jolly, Margaret, 1949- editor.

Tcherkézoff, Serge, editor.

Tryon, D. T. (Darrell T.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Islanders--First contact with other peoples.

Pacific Islanders.

Cultural relations.

Pacific Area--Colonization.

Pacific Area.

Pacific Area--History.

Pacific Area--Discovery and exploration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of 'encounter' rather than the more common idea of 'first contact' for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of 'strangers' or 'others' but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781921536281

1921536284

9781921536298

1921536292

OCLC:

1163846692

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459397