Crossing histories and ethnographies : following colonial historicities in Timor-Leste

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Crossing histories and ethnographies : following colonial historicities in Timor-Leste

edited by Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube

(Methodology and history in anthropology, volume 37)

Berghahn, 2019

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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.

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List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Crossing Histories and Ethnographies Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube PART I: FOLLOWING STORIES Chapter 1. Outside In: Mambai Expectations of Returning Outsiders Elizabeth G. Traube Chapter 2. The Enigmas of Timorese History and Manipulations of Mythical Narratives by Local Societies: The Example of Bunaq-Language Populations Claudine Friedberg Chapter 3. The Death of Arbiru: Colonial Mythic Praxis and the Apotheosis of Officer Duarte Ricardo Roque Chapter 4. Pacification and Rebellion in the Highlands of Portuguese Timor Judith Bovensiepen PART II: FOLLOWING OBJECTS Chapter 5. Catholic Luliks or Timorese Relics? Missionary Anthropology, Destruction and Self-Destruction (ca. 1910-1974) Frederico Delgado Rosa Chapter 6. Funerary Posts and Christian Crosses: Fataluku Cohabitations with Catholic Missionaries after World War II Susana de Matos Viegas and Rui Graca Feijo Chapter 7. The Stones of Afaloicai: Colonial Archaeology and the Authority of Ancient Objects Ricardo Roque and Lucio Sousa PART III: FOLLOWING CULTURES THROUGH ARCHIVES Chapter 8. Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories: Early Intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch Eyes Hans Hagerdal Chapter 9. Reading against the Grain: Ethnography, Commercial Agriculture, and the Colonial Archive of East Timor Andrew McWilliam and Chris J. Shepherd Chapter 10. Archival Records and Ethnographic Inquiries in Viqueque David Hicks Chapter 11. 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 Index

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