CROSSING HISTORIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIES
Methodology and History in Anthropology
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CROSSING HISTORIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIES
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Edited by
Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube
First published in 2019 by
Berghahn Books
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2019 Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Roque, Ricardo, editor. | Traube, Elizabeth G., editor.
Title: Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste / edited by Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube.
Description: First edition. | New York: Berghahn, 2019. | Series: Methodology and History in Anthropology; volume 37 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019010117 (print) | LCCN 2019011115 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789202724 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789202717 (hardback:alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Timor-Leste--History. | Timor-LesteColonization. | EthnologyTimor-Leste.
Classification: LCC DS649.5 (ebook) | LCC DS649.5 .C76 2019 (print) | DDC 959.87dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019010117
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ISBN 978-1-78920-271-7 hardback
ISBN 978-1-78920-272-4 ebook
CONTENTS
Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube
Elizabeth G. Traube
Claudine Friedberg
Ricardo Roque
Judith Bovensiepen
Frederico Delgado Rosa
Susana de Matos Viegas and Rui Graa Feij
Ricardo Roque and Lcio Sousa
Hans Hgerdal
Andrew McWilliam and Chris J. Shepherd
David Hicks
Kelly Silva
James J. Fox
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume was inspired by Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Anthropology and the Colonial Archive in East Timor hosted by the Instituto de Cincias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. The concept for this book evolved from our exchanges since 2013, through mutually enriching conversations and many emails over six years. We thank the Fundao para a Cincia e Tecnologia, Portugal (FCT) for funding the research projects that led to this volume (grant references HC/0089/2009 and PTDC/HAR- HIS/28577/2017).
Our dear colleague Claudine Friedberg passed away in 2018. All the contributors to this volume join with the editors in expressing our profound gratitude to Claudine for her lifelong example of scholarship, for her intellectual guidance, and for her contagious joy of living. We know she would be pleased to see this collection finally materialize.
We thank Chris Ballard and the anonymous reviewers for commentaries and advice on earlier versions of the manuscript. James J. Fox generously agreed to join the project in its final stages. During these years, it was a pleasure to work with Duncan Ranslem, Molly Mosher, and Ann DeVita; and with Marion Berghahn, Harry Eagles, Elizabeth Martinez, and Tom Bonnington at Berghahn.
Map. Timor-Leste in Southeast Asia. Map created by Hariboneagle927, adapted by the authors. Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Map. Timor-Leste. Map reproduced with the permission of CartoGIS Services, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
INTRODUCTION
CROSSING HISTORIES AND ETHNOGRAPHIES
Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth G. Traube
Mutual engagements between anthropology and history have become common if not standard practices within both disciplines. The key question for many anthropologists and historians today is not whether to cross the boundary between their disciplines but howor indeed, ifthe very idea of a disciplinary boundary should be sustained. The field and the archive, methodological spaces that traditionally stood for anthropology and history respectively, no longer belong exclusively to either discipline. Today few anthropologists and historians will contest this viewpoint. While the methodological spaces may still be differentially prioritized (an anthropologist who does no fieldwork remains almost as marginal within anthropology as a historian who never entered an archive would be in history), there is an emerging consensus that the field and the archive are mutually constitutive and that each can in certain circumstances be approached as a version of the otherthe field as a kind of archive, the archive as a kind of field.
