Crossing Histories and Ethnographies - Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Presents novel combinations of archival and ethnographic methods in the study of colonial historicities;


Offers new perspectives on how to critically connect oral accounts, ethnography, and colonial archives;


Brings together an international community of scholars who have conducted ethnographic and/or archival research on Timor-Leste;


A historical corrective to the classical ethnographic literature on Timor and Eastern Indonesia.

About the author

Ricardo Roque is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and currently an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. He works on the history and anthropology of human sciences, colonialism, and cross-cultural contact in the Portuguese-speaking world. He has published extensively on the colonial history of Timor-Leste.

Elizabeth G. Traube is Professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University (USA). She began her research with Mambai-speaking people of Aileu when Timor-Leste was still under Portuguese rule and has returned to Aileu several times since renewing her research there in 2000.

Product details

• Authors: Ricardo Traube Roque
• Assisted by: Ricardo Roque (Editor), ROQUE RICARDO (Editor), Elizabeth G. Traube (Editor), Traube Elizabeth G. (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2023
• EAN: 9781805391142
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-114-2
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, East Timor, East Timor / Timor-Leste