Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction. Crossing Histories and Ethnographies 1
6. Part I. Following Stories
7. Chapter 1. Outside In: Mambai Expectations of Returning Outsiders 47
8. Chapter 2. The Enigmas of Timorese History and Manipulations of Mythical Narratives by Local Societies: The Example of Bunaq-Language Populations 76
9. Chapter 3. The Death of the Arbiru: Colonial Mythic Praxis and the Apotheosis of Officer Duarte 93
10. Chapter 4. Pacification and Rebellion in the Highlands of Portuguese Timor 131
11. Part II. Following Objects
12. Chapter 5. Catholic Luliks or Timorese Relics? Missionary Anthropology, Destruction, and Self-Destruction (ca. 1910–74) 153
13. Chapter 6. Funerary Posts and Christian Crosses: Fataluku Cohabitations with Catholic Missionaries after World War II 177
14. Chapter 7. The Stones of Afaloicai: Colonial Archaeology and the Authority of Ancient Objects 203
15. Part III. Following Cultures through Archives
16. Chapter 8. Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories: Early Intrusion in East Timor through Portuguese and Dutch Eyes 239
17. Chapter 9. Reading against the Grain: Ethnography, Commercial Agriculture, and the Colonial Archive of East Timor 266
18. Chapter 10. Archival Records and Ethnographic Inquiries in Viqueque 294
19. Chapter 11. The Barlake War: Marriage Exchanges, Colonial Fantasies, and the Production of East Timorese People in 1970s Dili 313
20. Afterword. Glimpses of an Ethnohistory of Timor 339
21. Index 351