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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Main Author: Roque, Ricardo (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/43610
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/43610