Exemplary centre and "terra incognita"; Excursions, diplomacy, and appropriation of colonial knowledge in Belu, Timor
The article analyses early European knowledge about Belu, a historical region in Central Timor which, although “belonging” mostly to the Dutch colonial sphere, still had a position of cultural-ritual centrality on a Timor-wide level. Before the mid-nineteenth century, the region was, from a Dutch po...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
2023-10-01
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| Series: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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| Online Access: | https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol24/iss3/9/ |