Title: Crossing histories and ethnographies : following colonial historicities in Timor-Leste /
Authors: Roque, Ricardo; Traube, Elizabeth G.
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ethnology Timor-Leste; Colonization; Ethnology; Anthropologie; Geschichtsschreibung; Gesellschaft; Kolonialismus; Archiv; Feldforschung; Mission; Recherche; Timor-Leste History.; Timor-Leste Colonization.; Timor-Leste; Osttimor
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: Outside in : Mambai expectations of returning outsiders / Elizabeth G. Traube -- The enigmas of Timorese history and manipulations of mythical narratives by local societies : the example of Bunaq-language populations / Claudine Friedberg -- The death of Arbiru : colonial mythic praxis and the apotheosis of Officer Duarte / Ricardo Roque -- Pacification and rebellion in the highlands of Portuguese Timor / Judith Bovensiepen -- Catholic luliks or Timorese relics? : missionary anthropology, destruction, and self-destruction (ca. 1910-1974) / Frederico Delgado Rosa -- Funerary posts and Christian crosses : Fataluku cohabitations with Catholic missionaries after World War II / Susana de Matos Viegas and Rui Graca Feijo -- The stones of Afaloicai : colonial archaeology and the authority of ancient objects / Ricardo Roque and Lucio Sousa -- Contesting colonialisms, contesting stories : early intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch eyes / Hans Hagerdal -- Reading against the grain : ethnography, commercial agriculture, and the colonial archive of East Timor / Andrew McWilliam and Chris J. Shepherd -- Archival records and ethnographic inquiries in Viqueque / David Hicks -- The Barlake war : marriage exchanges, colonial fantasies, and the production of East Timorese people in 1970s Dili / Kelly Silva -- Afterword : glimpses of an ethnohistory of Timor / James J. Fox.