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Rebellions or factionalism? Timorese forms of resistance in an early colonial context, 1650-1769

In: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
Author:
Hans Hägerdal . hans.hagerdal@vxu.se

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Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2008
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The history of Timor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is interspersed with conflicts where indigenous groups opposed polities with a partly European background. In Western historiography such conflicts are usually portrayed as rebellions against a given European colonial apparatus (Morais 1934; Leitão 1952; Boxer 1968). A closer look, however, reveals these events to be quite complex affairs, which raises questions about the nature of acts of rebellion and colonial rule. Are we dealing with a one-sided anticolonial resistance, or is there more to the picture?

Title:
Rebellions or factionalism? Timorese forms of resistance in an early colonial context, 1650-1769
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-90003678
Language:
English
Pages:
1–33
In:
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
In:
Volume 163: Issue 1
Received:
25 Nov 2008
Accepted:
25 Nov 2008
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
2213-4379
Print ISSN:
0006-2294
Subjects:
Social Sciences, Asian Studies

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