Harbouring Traditions in East Timor: Marginality in a Lowland Entrepôt
Drawing on the literature of networks and marginality, this paper explores the social history of the small trading port of Com on the northeast coast of Timor. Corn's marginality, as I define it, is constituted as a remote outpost of inter-island and trans-local trade networks of the Indonesian...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Modern Asian Studies. - Cambridge University Press, 1967. - 41(2007), 6, Seite 1113-1143 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Modern Asian Studies |
| Schlagworte: | Behavioral sciences Biological sciences Business Physical sciences |
| Zusammenfassung: | Drawing on the literature of networks and marginality, this paper explores the social history of the small trading port of Com on the northeast coast of Timor. Corn's marginality, as I define it, is constituted as a remote outpost of inter-island and trans-local trade networks of the Indonesian archipelago, and reproduced in its contemporary isolation from centres of economic power and processes of the global market. The paper draws on narrative traditions and documentary evidence to chart Corn's fluctuating historical fortunes and contemporary cultural practices. In the fragile post-independence environment of Timor Leste, the resident population of Com is once again looking towards a creative engagement with external others in the hope of renewed prosperity. |
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| ISSN: | 14698099 |