Oceanic Encounters

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 twentie...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1162822024-04-02T22:12:35Z Oceanic Encounters Jolly, Margaret Tcherkézoff, Serge Tryon, Darrell Anthropology History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology 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. 2023-10-05T10:59:53Z 2023-10-05T10:59:53Z 2009 book ONIX_20231005_9781921536298_1993 9781921536298 9781921536281 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116282 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt24h8jn ANU Press 10.2307/j.ctt24h8jn 10.2307/j.ctt24h8jn 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781921536298 9781921536281 open access
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Oceanic Encounters
title Oceanic Encounters
title_full Oceanic Encounters
title_fullStr Oceanic Encounters
title_full_unstemmed Oceanic Encounters
title_short Oceanic Encounters
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History
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History
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