Acknowledgments   ix Note on Orthography   xi Introduction: The Politics of Intimacy in an Age of Empire   1 TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON Part 1. Vantage Points: Moving Across Imperial Spaces1. Violence and the Intimacy of Imperial Ethnography: The Endeavor in the Pacific   31 RACHEL STANDFIELD 2. In Search of the "Whaheen": Ngai Tahu Women, Shore Whalers, and the Meaning of Sex in Early New Zealand   49 DAVID HAINES 3. Writing "Home": Sibling Intimacy and Mobility in a Scottish Colonial Memoir   67 ELIZABETH VIBERT 4. Intimacy of the Envelope: Fiction, Commerce, and Empire in the Correspondence of Friends Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bronte, c. 1845-55   89 CHARLOTTE MACDONALD 5. Suva under Steam: Mobile Men and a Colonial Port Capital, 1880s-1910s   110 FRANCES STEEL 6. Performing "Interracial Harmony": Settler Colonialism at the 1934 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawai'i   127 FIONA PAISLEY Part 2. "Affective Economics": Sexuality and the Uses of Intimacy7. "Il a Epouse une Sauvagesse": Indian and Metis Persistence across Imperial and National Borders   149 MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL 8. "Miss Indian Territory" and "Mr. Oklahoma Territory": Marriage, Settlement, and Citizenship in the Cherokee Nation and the United States   172 KERRY WYNN 9. Genealogies and Histories in Collision: Tourism and Colonial Contestations in Hawai'i, 1900-1930   190 CHRISTINE M. SKWIOT 10. Intimate Assimilation: Comparing White-Indigenous Intermarriage in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1930s   211 KATHERINE ELLINGHAUS Part 3. Bodies on the Move: Scandals of Imperial Space11. "Faire and Well-Formed": Portuguese Eurasian Women and Symbolic Whiteness in Early Colonial India   231 ADRIAN CARTON 12. The Sorceress, the Servant, and the Stays: Sexuality and Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain   252 DANA RABIN 13. Social Mobilities at the Cape of Good Hope: Lady Anne Barnard, Samuel Hudson, and the Opportunities of Empire, c. 1797-1824   274 KIRSTEN MCKENZIE 14. Islands of Intimacy: Community, Kinship, and Domesticity, Salt Spring Island, 1866   296 ADELE PERRY 15. Telling Tales of Ko'olau: Containing and Mobilizing Disease in Colonial Hawai'i   315 MICHELLE T. MORAN Epilogue: The Intimate, the Translocal, and the Imperial in an Age of Mobility   335 TONY BALLANTYNE AND ANTOINETTE BURTON Contributors   339 Index   343