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Crossing Histories and Ethnographies : Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste / ed. by Ricardo Roque, Elizabeth G. Traube.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 37Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789202717
  • 9781789202724
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.87 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Crossing Histories and Ethnographies -- Part I. Following Stories -- Chapter 1. Outside In: Mambai Expectations of Returning Outsiders -- Chapter 2. The Enigmas of Timorese History and Manipulations of Mythical Narratives by Local Societies: The Example of Bunaq-Language Populations -- Chapter 3. The Death of the Arbiru: Colonial Mythic Praxis and the Apotheosis of Officer Duarte -- Chapter 4. Pacification and Rebellion in the Highlands of Portuguese Timor -- Part II. Following Objects -- Chapter 5. Catholic Luliks or Timorese Relics? Missionary Anthropology, Destruction, and Self-Destruction (ca. 1910–74) -- Chapter 6. Funerary Posts and Christian Crosses: Fataluku Cohabitations with Catholic Missionaries after World War II -- Chapter 7. The Stones of Afaloicai: Colonial Archaeology and the Authority of Ancient Objects -- Part III. Following Cultures through Archives -- Chapter 8. Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories: Early Intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch Eyes -- Chapter 9. Reading against the Grain: Ethnography, Commercial Agriculture, and the Colonial Archive of East Timor -- Chapter 10. Archival Records and Ethnographic Inquiries in Viqueque -- Chapter 11. The Barlake War: Marriage Exchanges, Colonial Fantasies, and the Production of East Timorese People in 1970s Dili -- Afterword. Glimpses of an Ethnohistory of Timor -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Crossing Histories and Ethnographies -- Part I. Following Stories -- Chapter 1. Outside In: Mambai Expectations of Returning Outsiders -- Chapter 2. The Enigmas of Timorese History and Manipulations of Mythical Narratives by Local Societies: The Example of Bunaq-Language Populations -- Chapter 3. The Death of the Arbiru: Colonial Mythic Praxis and the Apotheosis of Officer Duarte -- Chapter 4. Pacification and Rebellion in the Highlands of Portuguese Timor -- Part II. Following Objects -- Chapter 5. Catholic Luliks or Timorese Relics? Missionary Anthropology, Destruction, and Self-Destruction (ca. 1910–74) -- Chapter 6. Funerary Posts and Christian Crosses: Fataluku Cohabitations with Catholic Missionaries after World War II -- Chapter 7. The Stones of Afaloicai: Colonial Archaeology and the Authority of Ancient Objects -- Part III. Following Cultures through Archives -- Chapter 8. Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories: Early Intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch Eyes -- Chapter 9. Reading against the Grain: Ethnography, Commercial Agriculture, and the Colonial Archive of East Timor -- Chapter 10. Archival Records and Ethnographic Inquiries in Viqueque -- Chapter 11. The Barlake War: Marriage Exchanges, Colonial Fantasies, and the Production of East Timorese People in 1970s Dili -- Afterword. Glimpses of an Ethnohistory of Timor -- Index

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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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