Oceanic encounters : exchange, desire, violence /
Oceanic encounters : exchange, desire, violence /
edited by Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon.
- 1 online resource (1 electronic document (344 pages)) : illustrations, maps, PDF file
Title from PDF cover (viewed 23 July 2009).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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) / Margaret Jolly and Serge Tcherkezoff -- Darrell Tryon -- Margaret Jolly -- Serge Tcherkezoff -- Francoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- Bronwen Douglas -- Isabelle Merle -- Chris Ballard -- Mark S. Mosko -- Pascale Bonnemere and Pierre Lemonnier.
"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
English.
9781921536298 1921536292
10.26530/OAPEN_459397 doi
22573/ctt23663c JSTOR
Pacific Islanders--First contact with Europeans.
Cultural relations.
Anthropology.
History.
Humanities.
Language.
linguistics.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Colonization.
Cultural relations.
Discoveries in geography.
Pacific Islanders--First contact with Europeans.
Kulturkontakt
Kolonialismus
Gewalt
Sexualität
Oceania--Colonization.
Oceania--History.
Oceania--Discovery and exploration.
Oceania.
Ozeanien
linquistics. history. south pacific. anthropology.
Electronic books.
History.
DU19 / .O34 2009
305.80099
Title from PDF cover (viewed 23 July 2009).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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) / Margaret Jolly and Serge Tcherkezoff -- Darrell Tryon -- Margaret Jolly -- Serge Tcherkezoff -- Francoise Douaire-Marsaudon -- Bronwen Douglas -- Isabelle Merle -- Chris Ballard -- Mark S. Mosko -- Pascale Bonnemere and Pierre Lemonnier.
"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
English.
9781921536298 1921536292
10.26530/OAPEN_459397 doi
22573/ctt23663c JSTOR
Pacific Islanders--First contact with Europeans.
Cultural relations.
Anthropology.
History.
Humanities.
Language.
linguistics.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Colonization.
Cultural relations.
Discoveries in geography.
Pacific Islanders--First contact with Europeans.
Kulturkontakt
Kolonialismus
Gewalt
Sexualität
Oceania--Colonization.
Oceania--History.
Oceania--Discovery and exploration.
Oceania.
Ozeanien
linquistics. history. south pacific. anthropology.
Electronic books.
History.
DU19 / .O34 2009
305.80099