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| Title: |
Their Body is Different, Our Body is Different: European and Tahitian Navigators in the 18th Century |
| Author: |
Salmond, Anne |
| Appeared in: |
History and anthropology |
| Paging: | Volume 16 (2005) nr. 2 pages 167-186 |
| Year: |
2005-06 |
| Contents: |
This paper examines exchanges of navigational knowledge between Tahitian navigators and European explorers in the mid-18th century. Although Tahitian and European sailors accomplished way-finding at sea in ways based on very divergent assumptions about the ocean, the cosmos and persons, Tahitian navigators were able to board European ships, and pilot them safely through the islands. At first each side drew upon their own familiar practices to make sense of the other; using ostension or pointing, linguistic exchange and experience of each other's vessels as bridgeheads to produce a kind of rough intelligibility. Much was lost, however, in these partial and approximate exchanges. Here, exchanges between European and Tahitian sailors and their very different knowledge systems are used to explore the intricacies of cross-cultural encounters. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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