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- Barnes, Susana, et al.
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An East Timorese Domain Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives
- 2017
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In: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 173:2-3, s. 325-355
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The East Timorese kingdom Luca is described as the hegemon of the eastern parts of Timor in some nineteenth-century works. This is gainsaid by other data, which point to the existence of a multitude of petty kingdoms. This article scrutinizes Luca's claim to power from a number of angles, utilizing European records and contemporary anthropological fieldwork. First, we analyse the claims of the centre as reflected in colonial and indigenous narratives. Second, we investigate narratives from the 'periphery', that is, the minor adjacent domains of Vessoro and Babulo. Third, we offer a comprehensive discussion of Luca's role from a wider geographical perspective. In this way we produce a 'general account' that situates the symbolic and historical significance of Luca within the Timorese understanding of time, ritual, and power.
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- Billore, Soniya, 1972-, et al.
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The Indian Patola : Import and consumerism in early modern Indonesia
- 2019
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In: Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1755-750X .- 1755-7518. ; 11:3, s. 271-294
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose The present paper aims to focus on the Indian influence in the transfer of, the business of and consumer markets for Indian products, specifically, textiles from producers in the South Asian subcontinent to the lands to the east of Bali. This aspect of the influence of Indian products has received some attention in a general but not been sufficiently elucidated with regard to eastern Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on archival research, as well as secondary data, derived from the published sources on early trade in South Asia and the Indian Ocean world. The study includes data about the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, a Dutch-owned company, and its textile trade history with India and the Indonesian islands with a special focus on Patola textiles. Narratives and accounts provide an understanding of the Patola, including business development and related elite and non-elite consumption. Findings The paper shows how imported Indian textiles became indigenised in important respects, as shown in legends and myths. A search in the colonial sources demonstrates the role of cloth in gift exchange, alliance brokering and economic network-building in eastern Indonesia, often with important political implications. Research limitations/implications - The study combines previous research on material culture and textile traditions with archival data from the early colonial period, thus pointing at new ways to understand the socio-economic agency of local societies. Originality/value Only mapping the purchase and ownership of trading goods to understand consumption is not enough. One must also regard consumption, both as an expression of taste and desire and as a way to reify a community of people.
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- Duggan, Geneviève, et al.
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Savu : History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia
- 2018
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The work combines anththropological fieldwork and archival research in order to study the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Indonesian province Nusa Tenggara Timur. Savunese society is marked by a tight genealogically defined social system which has been able to allocate scarce natural resources. The island, traditionally divided into five domains or princedoms, was included in the political network of the Dutch VOC in the 1640s. The Savunese had importance for the Dutch as providers of auxiliaries, and later as exporters of horses, textiles, etc. The book follows the vicissitudes of Savu over the colonial period, Japanese occupation, revolution, and the postcolonial era.
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- Eklöf Amirell, Stefan, 1968-, et al.
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Introduction : Piracy in World History
- 2021
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In: Piracy in World History. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press. - 9789463729215 - 9789048544950 ; , s. 9-34
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Pirates, it is frequently claimed, have existed since the dawn of history, as long as there has been traffic and commerce at sea. Presumably, the origins of piracy would thus be sometime in the pre-historic past, when people first took to the sea for commercial purposes, probably around eight thousand years ago, along the coast of the Persian Gulf. Historical records over close to three and half millennia, from ancient Egypt to the present, seem to provide documentation of piratical activity from all around the world. Piracy would appear to be ubiquitous across a very longue durée in the history of humanity, and only with the projection of sea power by major states and empires, whether ancient (when Rome or Srivijaya controlled their adjacent seas) or modern (when Great Britain or the United States did so) was piracy efficiently suppressed, at least temporarily.On closer examination, however, this grand narrative has several weaknesses. As for the allegedly pre-historic origins of piracy, it is not an activity that has left distinct traces in archaeological records − unlike, for example, farming, hunting, or fishing. It may be inferred from material remains and ancient depictions that maritime violence occurred. In the absence of written sources, however, it is generally not possible to determine whether such violence was piratical by modern definitions, or by those current at the time. As Philip de Souza put it, a history of piracy can “be written only on the basis of texts which mention pirates or piracy in explicit terms, or which can be shown to refer implicitly to pirates or piracy, according to the normal usage of these terms in the culture which produced the texts.”The alleged opposition between piracy and state power is often also much less straightforward than it may seem. Maritime raiding and violence were regularly central to the accumulation of power, wealth, and state building, whether we look to ancient Greece, medieval Scandinavia, Elizabethan England, pre-colonial Southeast Asia, or the Chinese coasts in late imperial times. As the capacity to project sea power and exercise maritime violence became institutionalized and linked to state building the need to draw a border between licit and illicit violence arose. From this perspective, the concept of piracy understood by definition as illicit violence, applies only in relation to a state or system of states (whether real or imagined).
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- Franklin, Nathan, et al.
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Indonesian Heroes and Villains : National Identity, Politics, Law, and Security
- 2024
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In: Politics and Governance. - : Cogitatio Press. - 2183-2463. ; 12
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thematic issue of Politics and Governance offers a collection of unique articles that debate Indonesian “heroes” and “villains,” providing an understanding of the country’s past and present. The importance of Indonesia in the world is ever-increasing geopolitically and economically, offering rich material for academic studies. It is one of the few Muslim-majority democracies, with a long and complex history of people and institutions that have shaped its national identity, politics, government, law, and security, which we examine under the central theme of agents of change and integration. The articles cover local histories prior to independence in 1945 to the present day, the legacy of President Abdurrahman Wahid (1999–2001), a biography of a prominent Muslim activist turned terrorist, women’s agency in terrorism, as well efforts to reform terrorists. Discussions on the problematic aspects of the Indonesian state ideology Pancasila and the downgrading of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission are also examined. Realpolitik is covered in the article concerning Indonesia’s maritime security and in the article discussing activists who died fighting for democratic freedoms, such as Indonesian poet-activist Wiji Thukul, who eventually saw the reform movement (reformasi) topple the Soeharto “New Order” regime (1966–1998), and usher in the democracy that Indonesia enjoys today.
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- Gordon, A. Ross, et al.
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The killing of Posthouder Scheerder and Jifar Folfolun (The War of the Breasts) : Malukan and Dutch narratives of an incident in the VOC's waning days
- 2019
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In: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0022-4634 .- 1474-0680. ; 50:3, s. 324-346
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Aru Islands in southeastern Maluku have a long history of economic exchange and colonial relations with the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and later the Dutch colonial state. Aru was fragmented in smaller autonomous settlements, of which those in the east produced valuable items for export, such as pearls and tripang (edible sea cucumber). The article focuses on a spate of anti-colonial revolts in the waning days of the VOC in the 1790s. It centred on the Batuley villages situated on a few small islands on the eastern side. The central incident leading to the resistance was the killing of a Dutch low-ranking officer, Scheerder, an event which has been preserved in local tradition till the present day. A search in the VOC archives confirms several details, but suggests a rationale for the resistance which is partly different from the traditional version, and linked in with larger movements of resistance in Aru and Maluku. The article discusses the significance of the oral traditions, and how a comparison with archival materials can enrich our understanding of Arunese-Dutch relations.
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Humanetten : Nummer 45 Hösten 2020
- 2020
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- I dessa onormala tider fortsätter universitetet oförtrutet sitt uppdrag, att tillhandahålla meningsfull utbildning samt kritisk och innovativ forskning. Linnéuniversitetet har skilt sig från flera andra lärosäten genom att under Coronapandemin fortfa rande erbjuda viss campusundervisning. Hur detta kommer att utvecklas återstår att se; i takt med att fler aktiviteter sker på nätet har nya uppslagsrika lösningar tagits fram för att garantera studenterna en god kunskapsinhämtning och meningsfull kommunikation.Kommunikation är också temat för det första av de bägge teman som inryms i detta nummer av HumaNetten . Temat ”Translanguaging and Disciplinary Language in the Individual, at School and in Society” har redigerats av Gudrun Svensson, Fakulteten för konst och humaniora och Ann- Christin Torpsten, Fakulteten för samhällsvetenskaper, Linnéuniversitetet. Transspråkande handlar om användningen av språket i flerspråkiga kontexter och de sju bidragen behandlar både empiriska och mer teoretiska aspekter av det ta. Temat förklaras närmare av de bägge gästredaktörerna i ett separat förord.Det andra temat i föreliggande nummer har en mer lokal prägel. Piia Posti och Peter Forsgren, litteraturvetare vid Linnéuniversitetet har redigerat en samling betraktelser över litteratur i Småland. Frågor som ställs här är om det verkligen finns en distinkt ’småländsk’ litteratur och vad som i så fall har betingat dess utformning. Olika aspekter av dessa frågor lyfts fram i inte mindre än tretton essäer om både kända och något mindre bekanta litterära namn. Även här förklaras temat i större detalj í ett förord av de bägge gästredaktörerna.I övrigt bjuder detta nummer på artiklar om så skilda teman som äktenskap i den muslimska världen, Vi på Saltkråkan och digitala redskap för språkinlärning. Vi tackar alla bidragsgivare som har gjort detta julnummer av HumaNetten till en mångsidig och uppslagsrik läsupplevelse.För redaktionens räkningHans Hägerdal
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HumaNetten Nr 48, våren 2022 : Educational Linguistics
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Under pågående pandemi och uppseendeväckande världshändelser fortsätter HumaNetten sin mission som spridare av humaniora i ordets bredare bemärkelse. Linnéuniversitetet har turen att ha en kader av driftiga språkforskare som tagit initiativet till flera artiklar och temanummer genom åren. I detta vårnummer har vi glädjen att se Daniel Ocic Ihrmark, Sergej Ivanov och Christian Waldmann som gästredaktörer för ett tema om Educational Linguistics, vilket kan översättas som utbildningsinriktad språkvetenskap. Det handlar om relationen mellan språk, tanke, kommunikation och kunskapsutveckling inom olika skol- och utbildnings-nivåer. Det är med andra ord en högst samhällsrelevant inriktning som förstärker bilden av humanioras roll i det moderna samhället. Den forskningsmiljö som utvecklats vid Linnéuniversitetet sammanför språkvetare och språkdidaktiker inom de olika språk som undervisas om vid universitetet. I det här temanumret presenteras tio studier med nya perspektiv på Educational Linguistics. Vi ska inte ge en detaljerad översikt över innehållet på denna plats eftersom gästredaktörerna ger en närmare presentation av temat i sin separata introduktion. Utanför huvudtemat publicerar Sara Snoder, doktorand i språkdidaktik, sin studie ”Utrymmen för flerspråkighet – funktionella aspekter av flerspråkiga låg- och mellanstadie-lärares språkliga praktiker”, där hon med en etnografisk ansats söker vinna ny kunskap om flerspråkig användning i skolundervisning.För redaktionens räkningHans Hägerdal
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