Mountains and black races: anthropology’s heterotopias in colonial East Timor

This paper explores the pivotal status of mountain spaces in the 19th-century imaginary of wild peoples and black races in island Oceania. It adopts the notion of ‘heterotopia’ in order to examine how arrangements of human difference and spatial alterity were productively brought together in racial...

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Main Author: Roque, Ricardo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/6850
Country:Portugal
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