It's Dangerous, but these are my People

The Assimilation of a Catholic Priest among the Meto of Oecussi

Bibliographic Data

ID2174841
AuthorsMichael Rose (0000-0002-5400-2461)
Year2016
Volume17
Issue1
Pages66-82
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442213.2015.1116594
OpenAlexW2301122343
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Originally from Pennsylvania, Father Richard Daschbach has lived among the Atoni Pah Meto of West Timor since 1967. In this paper I consider Richard's ministry in the context of the literature on Austronesian cosmological systems, focusing on how his work, though defined by characteristically Meto notions of authority, spirituality and precedence, is also what Collier and Ong have described as a ‘global assemblage’. Tsing's concept of ‘friction’ is used as a way of understanding how both local and notionally universal forces within this encounter have been energised and transformed through their accidental and sometimes uneasy proximity

Accidental · Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Christian ministry · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Political science · Sociology · Spirituality · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Engineering · History · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies