Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Published by Berghahn Books 2019

Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Edited by: Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube

Volume 37 in the series Methodology & History in Anthropology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202724

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The key question for many anthropologists and historians today is not whether to cross the boundary between their disciplines, but whether the idea of a disciplinary boundary should be sustained. Reinterpreting the dynamic interplay between archive and field, these essays propose a method for mutually productive crossings between historical and ethnographic research. It engages critically with the colonial pasts of indigenous societies and examines how fieldwork and archival studies together lead to fruitful insights into the making of different colonial historicities. Timor-Leste’s unusually long and in some ways unique colonial history is explored as a compelling case for these crossings.

Author / Editor information

Ricardo Roque is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and currently an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. He works on the history and anthropology of human sciences, colonialism, and cross-cultural contact in the Portuguese-speaking world. He has published extensively on the colonial history of Timor-Leste.

Elizabeth G. Traube is Professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University (USA). She began her research with Mambai-speaking people of Aileu when Timor-Leste was still under Portuguese rule and has returned to Aileu several times since renewing her research there in 2000.

Ricardo Roque is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and currently an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. He works on the history and anthropology of human sciences, colonialism, and cross-cultural contact in the Portuguese-speaking world. He has published extensively on the colonial history of Timor-Leste.

Reviews

“Penned by anthropologists and historians alike, this collection of essays showcases the mutual enrichment of field and archival research for the understanding of colonial dynamics…The volume opens up some interesting ways to push the dialogue further and as such it is warmly recommended.” • Social Anthropology

“This is an important book, a valuable book, and in many ways, a path-setting book that brings together an impressive group of contemporary social analysts -- from both a historical and anthropological perspective – in a focused consideration of Timor-Leste.” • James J. Fox, The Australian National University

“The volume offers a strong and interesting set of studies; it is coherent and of value to the ethnography and anthropology of eastern Indonesia specifically and southeast Asian and Oceanic anthropology in general. The introduction offers an excellent overview of the historical turn in anthropology… The dialogue of practice and method gives the book wider interest for all those concerned with historical anthropology, irrespective of the region in which they work.”• Nicholas Thomas, Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction. Crossing Histories and Ethnographies Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Following Stories
Chapter 1. Outside In: Mambai Expectations of Returning Outsiders Elizabeth G. Traube Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 2. The Enigmas of Timorese History and Manipulations of Mythical Narratives by Local Societies: The Example of Bunaq-Language Populations Claudine Friedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 3. The Death of the Arbiru: Colonial Mythic Praxis and the Apotheosis of Officer Duarte Ricardo Roque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 4. Pacification and Rebellion in the Highlands of Portuguese Timor Judith Bovensiepen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Part II. Following Objects
Chapter 5. Catholic Luliks or Timorese Relics? Missionary Anthropology, Destruction, and Self-Destruction (ca. 1910–74) Frederico Delgado Rosa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Chapter 6. Funerary Posts and Christian Crosses: Fataluku Cohabitations with Catholic Missionaries after World War II Susana de Matos Viegas and Rui Graça Feijó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 7. The Stones of Afaloicai: Colonial Archaeology and the Authority of Ancient Objects Ricardo Roque and Lúcio Sousa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Part III. Following Cultures through Archives
Chapter 8. Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories: Early Intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch Eyes Hans Hägerdal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Chapter 9. Reading against the Grain: Ethnography, Commercial Agriculture, and the Colonial Archive of East Timor Andrew McWilliam and Chris J. Shepherd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Chapter 10. Archival Records and Ethnographic Inquiries in Viqueque David Hicks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Chapter 11. The Barlake War: Marriage Exchanges, Colonial Fantasies, and the Production of East Timorese People in 1970s Dili Kelly Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Afterword. Glimpses of an Ethnohistory of Timor James J. Fox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 372
Keywords: Timor-Leste; Eastern Timor; Eastern Indonesia; Colonialism; Colonial Pasts of Indigenous Societies; Historical anthropology; ethnographic fieldwork; colonial archive; colonialism; historicities; indigenous history

eBook

Published: June 20, 2019
ISBN: 9781789202724