Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

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.

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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