Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210644

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0210644

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2002

End Date: 30-06-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $565,479.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literature Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Literary Studies | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Social ethics |

Other Keywords

Communication Across Languages and Cultures | Literary Studies | Literature Studies Not Elsewhere Classified | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Social And Cultural Anthropology | Social ethics | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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