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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

Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Edited by Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube
Afterword by James J. Fox

372 pages, index

ISBN  978-1-78920-271-7 Hb Published (June 2019)

eISBN 978-1-80539-368-9 eBook