The name of the wild man: colonial arbiru in East Timor
In this chapter I explore the indigenous incorporation and critique of colonial outsiders through nicknaming. I draw on the history of colonial warfare in Timor-Leste, a former Portuguese colony, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to consider naming practices as a way through which the mimet...
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Format: | bookPart |
Language: | eng |
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2020
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43610 |
Country: | Portugal |
Oai: | oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/43610 |