Gifts of Friendship: intimacy and exchange in cross-cultural contact

友谊的礼物：跨文化接触中的亲密和交流。这个项目将调查一个明显相互矛盾的现象：在欧美帝国的探索和殖民统治中，存在着明确的友谊政策。它将侧重于1767-1830年期间的太平洋岛屿，探讨欧洲和波利尼西亚传统和友谊做法的相互作用，特别是与交流做法有关的相互作用。该项目将研究大量的档案证据，初步发现，这些证据将被证明比目前对殖民话语运作的理解所允许的跨文化友谊形成的伦理和意识形态影响更具自我意识和焦虑。

Gifts of Friendship: intimacy and exchange in cross-cultural contact. This project will investigate an apparently contradictory phenomenon: the existence of explicit policies of friendship-making within Euro-American imperial exploration and colonial settlement. Focusing on the Pacific islands in the period 1767-1830, it will look at the interaction of European and Polynesian traditions and practices of friendship, particularly in relation to practices of exchange. The project will examine a huge body of archival evidence, which initial findings suggest will prove to be much more self-conscious and anxious about the ethical and ideological implications of cross-cultural friendship-formation than current understandings of the operations of colonial discourse would allow.