Christopher Shepherd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Shepherd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepherd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHERD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2004-9154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010
Potatoes
This chapter explores the most prolific tuber, the potato, from its early history to the present. The discussion moves from the potato in its original pre-Columbian Andean setting, through the Spanish colonial and republican periods in Peru, and then to Europe before returning to modern-day Peru. It looks at the potato’s domestication and its attributes, and its place in state-making and state expansion, in warfare and peasant resistance, in demo…
Sex trafficking by consent? Andean padrinazgo, illegal mining in Amazonia, and state intervention
Rising gold prices have led to the expansion of illegal gold mining in Peru's southwestern Amazon region. This is accompanied by an increase in sex trafficking of Indigenous girls and women from the southern Andes. This article focuses on the emerging economic and cultural connections that span Andean and Amazonian mining and sex trafficking migration in the region. The notion of precarity is applied to assess victims' agency within a racialized,…
Post-conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste: Redemptive Legacies, by Andrew McWilliam
Author’s Response to Andrew McWilliam’s Review of “Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters. Animism and Ethnography in East Timor, 1860–1975.”
Green and anti-green revolutions in East Timor and Peru
Since the 1950s, the international development industry has brought agricultural modernisation programs – or Green Revolutions (GRs) – to many parts of the so-called Third World. In many cases, GRs have spawned postdevelopment resistance – anti-GRs – that urge the affirmation of culture and the revalorisation of lost or existing local or Indigenous knowledge. Comparing the mature post-GR, postdevelopment of Andean Peru with stifled postdevelopmen…
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860–1975
The Modern Origins of Traditional Agriculture: Colonial Policy, Swidden Development, and Environmental Degradation in Eastern Timor
The origin of swidden systems is typically portrayed as a pre-colonial, pre-nationalist, and pre-developmentalist tradition, subsequently interrupted and eroded by colonial exploitation and post-colonial technoscience in favour of market agriculture. A recent counter-position to this 'anteriority model' presents swidden systems as reactionary 'refuge agriculture' in search of remote locations to circumvent state accountability (Scott 2009). A thi…
Lulik encounters and cultural frictions in East Timor: Past and present
In the East Timorese lingua franca, Tetun, the word lulik is often simply translated as ‘sacred’ or ‘forbidden’. But the concept has much wider application as a set of fundamental, philosophical and moral orientations in Timorese social life. In this paper we present six historical and contemporary encounters with lulik , by a range of outsiders from beyond the Timorese tradition. Placed in the context of Sahlin's notion of ‘the structure of the …
Cultivating Plantations and Subjects in East Timor: A Genealogy
This article traces the emergence and institutionalization of plantation systems and cash crops in East Timor over two centuries. It examines the continuities, ruptures and shifting politics across successive plantation styles and political regimes, from Portuguese colonialism through Indonesian occupation to post-colonial independence. In following plantation agriculture from its origins to the present, the article explores how plantation subjec…
Ethnography, Agency, and Materiality: Anthropological Perspectives on Rice Development in East Timor
Rice in contemporary East Timor is multivalent, with a rich historical legacy. In the current postcolonial context, rice agriculture and the value of rice as both a consumption good and a development objective remain a priority. Government-sponsored rice production is framed variously as “food security” for the poor and as a key objective of “agricultural modernization” for a new class of dynamic farmers in a progressive market-oriented food prod…
Remembering Things
In an attempt to listen to things, and to unpack the dynamics and particularities of the role of things in constituting memory (and the role of memory in constituting things), we argue four points: that relations between things are crucial; that things provide us with markers of time, place, purpose, and identity; that these markers are historically obdurate; and that things actin ways that transcend semiotics. Each of these four—relations, marke…
Skin Cells: On the Limits of Gender-Bending and Bodily Transgression in Film and Culture
Lulik encounters and cultural frictions in East Timor: Past and present
In the East Timorese lingua franca, Tetun, the word lulik is often simply translated as ‘sacred’ or ‘forbidden’. But the concept has much wider application as a set of fundamental, philosophical and moral orientations in Timorese social life. In this paper we present six historical and contemporary encounters with lulik , by a range of outsiders from beyond the Timorese tradition. Placed in the context of Sahlin's notion of ‘the structure of the …
Cultivating Plantations and Subjects in East Timor: A Genealogy
This article traces the emergence and institutionalization of plantation systems and cash crops in East Timor over two centuries. It examines the continuities, ruptures and shifting politics across successive plantation styles and political regimes, from Portuguese colonialism through Indonesian occupation to post-colonial independence. In following plantation agriculture from its origins to the present, the article explores how plantation subjec…
The Modern Origins of Traditional Agriculture: Colonial Policy, Swidden Development, and Environmental Degradation in Eastern Timor
The origin of swidden systems is typically portrayed as a pre-colonial, pre-nationalist, and pre-developmentalist tradition, subsequently interrupted and eroded by colonial exploitation and post-colonial technoscience in favour of market agriculture. A recent counter-position to this 'anteriority model' presents swidden systems as reactionary 'refuge agriculture' in search of remote locations to circumvent state accountability (Scott 2009). A thi…
Remembering Things
In an attempt to listen to things, and to unpack the dynamics and particularities of the role of things in constituting memory (and the role of memory in constituting things), we argue four points: that relations between things are crucial; that things provide us with markers of time, place, purpose, and identity; that these markers are historically obdurate; and that things actin ways that transcend semiotics. Each of these four—relations, marke…
Skin Cells: On the Limits of Gender-Bending and Bodily Transgression in Film and Culture
Remembering Things
In an attempt to listen to things, and to unpack the dynamics and particularities of the role of things in constituting memory (and the role of memory in constituting things), we argue four points: that relations between things are crucial; that things provide us with markers of time, place, purpose, and identity; that these markers are historically obdurate; and that things actin ways that transcend semiotics. Each of these four—relations, marke…
Ethnography, Agency, and Materiality: Anthropological Perspectives on Rice Development in East Timor
Rice in contemporary East Timor is multivalent, with a rich historical legacy. In the current postcolonial context, rice agriculture and the value of rice as both a consumption good and a development objective remain a priority. Government-sponsored rice production is framed variously as “food security” for the poor and as a key objective of “agricultural modernization” for a new class of dynamic farmers in a progressive market-oriented food prod…
Cultivating Plantations and Subjects in East Timor: A Genealogy
This article traces the emergence and institutionalization of plantation systems and cash crops in East Timor over two centuries. It examines the continuities, ruptures and shifting politics across successive plantation styles and political regimes, from Portuguese colonialism through Indonesian occupation to post-colonial independence. In following plantation agriculture from its origins to the present, the article explores how plantation subjec…
Lulik encounters and cultural frictions in East Timor: Past and present
In the East Timorese lingua franca, Tetun, the word lulik is often simply translated as ‘sacred’ or ‘forbidden’. But the concept has much wider application as a set of fundamental, philosophical and moral orientations in Timorese social life. In this paper we present six historical and contemporary encounters with lulik , by a range of outsiders from beyond the Timorese tradition. Placed in the context of Sahlin's notion of ‘the structure of the …
The Modern Origins of Traditional Agriculture: Colonial Policy, Swidden Development, and Environmental Degradation in Eastern Timor
The origin of swidden systems is typically portrayed as a pre-colonial, pre-nationalist, and pre-developmentalist tradition, subsequently interrupted and eroded by colonial exploitation and post-colonial technoscience in favour of market agriculture. A recent counter-position to this 'anteriority model' presents swidden systems as reactionary 'refuge agriculture' in search of remote locations to circumvent state accountability (Scott 2009). A thi…
Green and anti-green revolutions in East Timor and Peru
Since the 1950s, the international development industry has brought agricultural modernisation programs – or Green Revolutions (GRs) – to many parts of the so-called Third World. In many cases, GRs have spawned postdevelopment resistance – anti-GRs – that urge the affirmation of culture and the revalorisation of lost or existing local or Indigenous knowledge. Comparing the mature post-GR, postdevelopment of Andean Peru with stifled postdevelopmen…
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860–1975
Author’s Response to Andrew McWilliam’s Review of “Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters. Animism and Ethnography in East Timor, 1860–1975.”
Post-conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste: Redemptive Legacies, by Andrew McWilliam
Sex trafficking by consent? Andean padrinazgo, illegal mining in Amazonia, and state intervention
Rising gold prices have led to the expansion of illegal gold mining in Peru's southwestern Amazon region. This is accompanied by an increase in sex trafficking of Indigenous girls and women from the southern Andes. This article focuses on the emerging economic and cultural connections that span Andean and Amazonian mining and sex trafficking migration in the region. The notion of precarity is applied to assess victims' agency within a racialized,…
Potatoes
This chapter explores the most prolific tuber, the potato, from its early history to the present. The discussion moves from the potato in its original pre-Columbian Andean setting, through the Spanish colonial and republican periods in Peru, and then to Europe before returning to modern-day Peru. It looks at the potato’s domestication and its attributes, and its place in state-making and state expansion, in warfare and peasant resistance, in demo…
Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010
Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Agency (philosophy (3 works)