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Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Inga Clendinnen. Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. 324. Cloth $60.00, paper $21.99.

In this book Inga Clendinnen breathes new life into early contact between indigenous and incoming peoples in Sydney, Australia, during the late eighteenth century. Although an Australian, Clendinnen is not an historian of Australia. Her previous work on Aztec cultures of early sixteenth-century Mexico earned her well-deserved acclaim from an international readership impressed by the quality of her writing and her capacity to read ethnographic and ethnohistorical records with compelling freshness. Above all, her admirers have applauded the contribution of her work in promoting nuanced cross-cultural research that takes nothing for granted. In this book, we see this compassionate treatment of the past in a new light: here Clendinnen expresses her hopes for the role of history in renewing mutual comprehension between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians concerning the significance of their first exchanges in the late 1780s.

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