The Political System of the Atoni of Timor

Nordholt, H.G. Schulte

doi:10.1163/9789004286900

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“…A fuller treatment of stranger-kingship is in preparation in book form: provisional title, The Stranger-King; or, the Powers of Otherness. 4 Aside from works previously cited, those noted in this paragraph are: Siikala (1990;; Ho (1999;; Hoskins (1993);Schulte Nordholt (1971);Josselin de Jong (1975); Rutherford (2002); Gibson (2005); Barnes (1974); Krizancic (2006); Reid (1994;; Kathirithamby-Wells (2006); L. Andaya (1975;cf. 2006); Schrieke (1957);Walker (2002); Wolters (1970;.…”

Section: Alterity and Autochthony In Tikopiamentioning

confidence: 93%

Alterity and Autochthony: Austronesian Cosmographies of the Marvellous

Sahlins¹,

Gnecchi-Ruscone²,

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2017

Tides of Innovation in Oceania

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Section: Alterity and Autochthony In Tikopiamentioning

confidence: 93%

Alterity and Autochthony: Austronesian Cosmographies of the Marvellous

Sahlins¹,

Gnecchi-Ruscone²,

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2017

Tides of Innovation in Oceania

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“…Conklin 1954(cf. Conklin , 1957Dove 1981Dove , 1985Weinstock 1979) to complement overviews of swidden agriculture on Timor (Metzner 1977;Ormeling 1956;Panão 1915;Schulte Nordholt 1971). 48 Farmers usually establish original land claims through cultivation and maintain those claims through repeated cultivation, periodic maintenance of fallows, visits to the fallow site, establishing markers or fencing, and speaking about claimed land (or trees).…”

Section: Swidden Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…6 When they had all fled, there was still one person left hiding in a tree, who also cooked and ate up in the tree. After our 2 Reid (1997:61-2) proposes that for most of Timorese history, the island might have been ruled from the 'inside out', and ethnographies from Timor describe pre-colonial interior political systems and relatively recent relocations to the coast (Fox 1977:63;Francillon 1980;McWilliam 1996;Schulte Nordholt 1971;Traube 1986). 3 The changing roles of these figures and their interactions with modern state processes regarding land and forest regulation are discussed extensively elsewhere (Meitzner Yoder 2007a, 2007b.…”

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Tensions of Tradition: Making and remaking claims to land in the Oecusse enclave

Yoder¹

2011

Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays

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Introduction: Changing relations and landholding practicesThis chapter explores how rural residential and agricultural land claims in Timor-Leste's Oecusse (Ambeno) enclave are established, maintained and transferred through various means including warfare, agricultural use, allocation by customary leaders and government programs, and migration. Settlement narratives illuminate some basic principles of claim making and explain how local customary leaders and early settlers preserve their favourable positions in relation to land control. This account analyses how landownership is linked to agricultural land use and village (suco) membership; the conditions in which both landowners and non-landowners acquire, borrow and use land; and how landownership and authority are transformed through agricultural change. This discussion also demonstrates how state land-titling policies that do not account for the causes and widespread incidence of land borrowing could inadvertently misidentify landowners, and might formally deprive a significant portion of the rural population of agricultural land access.Recent property scholarship focuses on the human-relational aspects of ownership and use of land alongside other forms of claims to physical, cultural and intellectual property. There has been much attention to how definitions of ownership reflect or exclude the relational and identity factors at the core of many land claims (Hann 1998;Kalinoe and Leach 2004;Peluso 2003;Roseman 1998;Shamir 1996;Strathern 1998Strathern , 1999Tsing 2003;Weiner 1999;Zerner 2003b). Different actors usually have different forms and evidence of claim; rural people, urban people, migrants, the state, those with natural resource-intensive livelihoods, and others with property interests have distinct expectations about what types and expressions of resource claims are appropriate or valid (Zerner 2003a).The stunning complexity of customary land and forest regulation-in which ownership norms can be specific to each resource, lineage or location-is Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic essays 188 understandable when we consider that the bases of claims and the possibilities of ownership are embedded in social relationships and the identity of the would-be owner(s). Customary ownership norms are no longer viewed as a static 'tradition' (Hutchinson 1996), and specificity, mutability and responsiveness to social transformation are understood as intrinsic qualities in land use and tenure. Studying disembodied stated rights and practices is inadequate for understanding decision making regarding land if positions of relative power and relationships define the outcomes. Where 'claims rest on demonstrable relationships ' (Strathern 2004:9), customary ownership is tailored to each case-better visualised as a constellation of practices or cases than as a single, coherent system. As 'ownership is a function of relations between persons with reference to things, and not between people and things' (Leach 2004a:43), this chapter examines how ownership is narrate...

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“…6 When they had all fled, there was still one person left hiding in a tree, who also cooked and ate up in the tree. After our 2 Reid (1997:61-2) proposes that for most of Timorese history, the island might have been ruled from the 'inside out', and ethnographies from Timor describe pre-colonial interior political systems and relatively recent relocations to the coast (Fox 1977:63;Francillon 1980;McWilliam 1996;Schulte Nordholt 1971;). 3 The changing roles of these figures and their interactions with modern state processes regarding land and forest regulation are discussed extensively elsewhere (Meitzner Yoder 2007a, 2007b.…”

Section: Origins and Highland Settlement: Land Claimed Through Warfarmentioning

confidence: 99%