Full Description
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
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 Graça Feijó
Chapter 7. The Stones of Afaloicai: Colonial Archaeology and the Authority of Ancient Objects
Ricardo Roque and Lúcio Sousa
PART III: FOLLOWING CULTURES THROUGH ARCHIVES
Chapter 8. Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories: Early Intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch Eyes
Hans Hägerdal
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
