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Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories: Early Intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch Eyes
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences. (Lnuc Concurrences)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4758-191X
2019 (English)In: Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste / [ed] Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube, New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019, p. 241-265Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The chapter proposes an approach to the study of Timorese historicity that implies crossing archival records from different European languages and subject positions. The question of “how to formulate a Timorese history of Timor” must consider the contribution of early modern Western-authored accounts, in which “indigenous voices” can also often be found. However, a Timor-centered historiography should also not be reduced to European accounts. In the case of Timor-Leste, a full answer to that question, the author proposes, resides in a work of “triangulation of source materials”: triangulation between Portuguese and Dutch written documents; between these and the East Timorese oral record (as this can be retrieved from ritual keepers, such as the lian na’in); or still between the latter and the findings of archaeology and linguistics.

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New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019. p. 241-265
Keywords [en]
East Timor, colonization, seventeenth century, Portugal, VOC, sources
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History
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Humanities, History
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-89927ISBN: 978-1-78920-271-7 (print)ISBN: 978-1-78920-272-4 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-89927DiVA, id: diva2:1368275
Available from: 2019-11-06 Created: 2019-11-06 Last updated: 2025-09-23Bibliographically approved

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