Mimetic Governmentality and the Administration of Colonial Justice in East Timor, ca. 1860-1910

This article explores the mimesis of indigenous “customs and law” as a theory of and strategy for colonial government in the period of late imperialism. I draw on the case of colonial administration in the Portuguese colony of Timor during the second-half of the nineteenth century. I introduce the c...

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Main Author: Roque, Ricardo (author)
Format: article
Language:por
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/15754
Country:Portugal
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