[TimorLesteStudies] Swinburne Seminar (Melbourne) - The Cross and the funerary pole: Fataluku cohabitations with Catholic missionaries after World War II (Timor-Leste) - Thursday 24 November 2016, 12:00-1:00pm

[Michael Leach]

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School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities - Seminar Series
Presenter: Susana de Matos Viegas, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon
Title: The Cross and the funerary pole: Fataluku cohabitations with Catholic missionaries after World War II  (Timor-Leste)
Date: Thursday, 24 November 2016
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Venue: Penang Conference Room, Level 3, Library, Hawthorn Campus
When the Fuiloro Salesian mission settled in Lautém (the easternmost district of Timor-Leste, about 200 km from Dili) in 1945, the influence of Catholicism in the region was inexistent. Informed by contemporary ethnographic analysis sustained in fieldwork in Lautém, in this paper I propose an analysis of several episodes described by father Rodrigues in his book O rei de Nari (The King of Nari, 1962), resulting from his experience in this region from 1945 to 1957. My analysis shows how the relationships of the Fataluku with the missionary were ambivalent, balancing between obeying and involving him in a reciprocal relationship of 'respect' to native customary practices. The paper aims to contribute to a historicist analysis that highlights processes of cohabitation between Fataluku funerary practices and Catholic ones as an example of broader relations involving the locals and the colonial representatives.

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