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Oceanic encounters: exchange, desire, violence

Objektkategorie:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Jolly, Margaret
Tcherkézoff, Serge (1948)
GND Explorer
Tryon, D.
Bereitstellende Institution:
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Verlag:
ANU E Press
Ort:
Acton, A.C.T.
Entstehungszeit:
2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Abstract:
"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 duree 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."--Publisher's website.
Objekttext:
edited by Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff & Darrell Tryon
Includes bibliographical references and index
Title from PDF cover (viewed 23 July 2009)
Inhalt:
Oceanic encounters: a prelude; Linguistic encounter and responses in the South Pacific; The sediment of voyages: re-membering Quiros, Bougainville and Cook in Vanuatu; A reconsideration of the role of Polynesian women in early encounters with Europeans: supplement to Marshall Sahlins' voyage around the islands of history; Uncertain times: sailors, beachcombers and castaways as "missionaries" and cultural mediators in Tonga (Polynesia); In the event: indigenous countersigns and the ethnohistory of voyaging; Watkin Tench's fieldwork: the journal of an "ethnographer" in Port Jackson, 1788-1791; The art of encounter: verisimilitude in the imaginary exploration of interior New Guinea, 1725-1876; Black powder, white magic: European armaments and sorcery in early Mekeo and Roro encounters; A measure of violence: forty years of "first contact" among the Ankave-Anga (Papua New Guinea)

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