History of East Timor between Myths, Memory Realms, Macau and the Challenges of Cultural Anthropology PDF
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a Ivo Carneiro de Sousa s u o S e d o r i e n r a C o v I HISTORY OF EAST TIMOR BETWEEN MYTHS, MEMORY REALMS, MACAU AND THE CHALLENGES OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY R O M I T T S A E F O Y R O T S I H History of East Timor Author Ivo Carneiro de Sousa Publisher EWIAS, East-West Institute for Advanced Studies Design & Composition Graffiti communications Printing Welfare Printing First Edition, May 2018 1000 copies © EWIAS & Ivo Carneiro de Sousa ISBN 978-99965-709-1-9 | 1 Ivo Carneiro de Sousa | 2 History of East Timor Ivo Carneiro de Sousa HISTORY OF EAST TIMOR BETWEEN MYTHS, MEMORY REALMS, MACAU AND THE CHALLENGES OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY | 3 Ivo Carneiro de Sousa | 4 History of East Timor C ontents P O art ne INTRODUCTION TO EAST TIMOR THROUGH MYTHS, TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 11 P t art wO PRE-HISTORY, ETHNICITY, LANGUAGES AND THE FORMATION OF EAST TIMOR PRE-COLONIAL HISTORY 31 P t art hree LINEAGES, ALLIANCES AND POLITIES, COLONIAL RULE AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 59 P F art Our PORTUGUESE AND LUSO-ASIAN LEGACIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA view from Bidao, east timor 81 Part Five PHILIP II, EAST TIMOR, THE PHILIPPINES AND THE TRUE KING OF TIMOR AND PORTUGAL 95 Part Six SANDALWOOD, TRADERS, MISSIONARIES AND CHINESE EMIGRANTS HISTORY OF MACAU-EAST TIMOR RELATIONS 115 reFerenceS 157 | 5 Ivo Carneiro de Sousa | 6 History of East Timor Is till remember as if it was yesterday the first paper on “pre-colonial history of East Timor” that I have presented in late September 1983 in a solidarity conference organized in Lisbon. In the end, the Timorese priest that assembled the gathering, father Apolinário Maria Aparício Gueterres was more than disappointed: he had only counted 17 people attending the day- long conference, and more than half were the members of a traditional dance group that performed during the event. In those early 1980’s still quiet close to the brutal Indonesian invasion of the independent Democratic Republic of East Timor few days after being proclaimed on November 28, 1975, the Timorese national cause seemed forgotten, but not ever lost. Afterward, I have attended tens of the most different conferences, debates, and workshops on the so-called “East-Timor problem” where I had always tried to present serious scientific perspectives on historical and anthropological themes. I had also presented papers on, at least, ten international major conferences on East- Timor in several different continents. Among other pleasant memories, I still recall the vivid academic and political impacts of a conference organized in Maputo, in 1997, entitled “Africa and the East-Timor question.” Gathering African research centers from Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa, Angola and others countries, coordinated with intelligence by Dr. Mari Alkatiri, the conference has ended up with a superb closing lecture by Dra. Graça Machel that after that has bridged the East-Timorese national resistance to Nelson Mandela moral solidarity engagement: a very eloquent example of the closest cooperation ever between advanced scientific research and generous solidarity universal principles. Other than teaching History and Culture of East Timor during several years, from 1994 to 2002, supervising doctoral and master dissertations on the country history and anthropology, I had coordinated between 1994- 1999 UNET (Universities Network for East-Timor), gathering more than 50 institutions from diverse world geographies. I was also the stirring research- coordinator of the Portuguese Center for the Study of Southeast Asia (CEPESA), between 2000 and 2005, two periods of the most challenging work that allowed me to systematically publish and co-edit books, journals issues and several novel papers on East-Timor. During these last two decades, divers colleagues, friends and a lot of students have been asking me | 7 Ivo Carneiro de Sousa to gather some of my most useful papers and to come out with a book able to help young researchers and post-graduate students. I have ever had time to do it until, finally, these last months between 2017 and 2018 I decided to return to my papers, even the oldest ones, and I have sincerely sought to build up a useful printed volume. After countless hesitations, I have picked up six texts among more than thirty, published between 1995 and 2011, and started trying to give them some pertinent connections. The result was indeed a lot of unforeseen work: I have not only revised the papers, but I really rewrote them, updating sources, data and bibliography after reading practically all, but not many, new interesting fresh research on East Timor archeology, history and anthropology. The result of this effort finally ends up with this title that I expect can sincerely encourage young researchers and post-graduate students to study a country that I love and respect. Lastly, readers from the most diverse cultural, ideological or political backgrounds, and belonging as well, I hope, to different geographies and nationalities will certainly either forget or understand me by dedicating this book to one of the East-Timorese leaders that I have always admired the most: to Dr. Mari Alkatiri with lasting esteem, com a estima de sempre. Ivo Carneiro de Sousa Taipa in front of Macau, May 1, 2018 | 8 History of East Timor | 9
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