Hans Hägerdal
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 98432 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hans Hägerdal |
| PRENOMES | Hans |
| SOBRENOME | Hägerdal |
| ASSINATURA | HÄGERDAL H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4758-191X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Sources for Slaving in Eastern Indonesia
Eastern Indonesia (east of Bali) was a major source of slaves for the Southeast Asian market and beyond. Up to the 19th century, a plethora of indigenous forms of coerced labour coexisted with European, mostly Dutch, slavery. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the potential of underused written sources to trace the migrations of coerced labour in the 17th–18th centuries. These texts include proto-demographic data, ships’ logs, daily records a…
Enlightenment and Genocide
The Dutch United East India Company ( voc ) had a Janus-faced position in early-modern maritime Asia as merchant and politician. The present study highlights this through the case of the Spanish-born diplomat Johannes Andreas Paravicini (1710–71). During his mission to Timor in 1756, he concluded a major contract with numerous indigenous states that ostensibly brought a major part of Timor under the voc , in defiance of the rival Portuguese. The …
Indonesian Heroes and Villains
This thematic issue of Politics and Governance offers a collection of unique articles that debate Indonesian “heroes” and “villains,” providing an understanding of the country’s past and present. The importance of Indonesia in the world is ever-increasing geopolitically and economically, offering rich material for academic studies. It is one of the few Muslim-majority democracies, with a long and complex history of people and institutions that ha…
Slaving, Colonial Diplomacy, and Resource Extraction in Seventeenth-Century Maritime Asia
This study combines perspectives of social change and resource exploitation from two angles: the intercultural diplomacy conducted by the VOC in early modern maritime Asia, and the trajectories of slavery, slave routes, and zones of coerced labour in this macro-region. The use of enslaved people by European polities for production of cash crops and domestic work in maritime South and Southeast Asia has been widely researched. The local consequenc…
Diplomacy in the Villages
The aim of the article is to analyse how colonial diplomacy worked on a local level in a supposedly 'marginal' area, in an early modern setting. The VOC created a comprehensive diplomatic network which also involved the people of the Aru Islands in Southeastern Maluku, who were approached by the VOC after 1623 and who exported a range of valuable sea and forest products, such as birds of paradise, lorises, turtle-shell, pearl shells, trepang, and…
Exemplary centre and "terra incognita"; Excursions, diplomacy, and appropriation of colonial knowledge in Belu, Timor
The article analyses European colonial knowledge and approaches to Belu, a region in Central Timor (now mostly in Indonesia). It scrutinizes the careers of three Dutch colonial representatives, A.G. Brouwer (fl. 1840s-1850s), Willem Leendert Rogge (1828-1884) and Hendrik Jan Grijzen (1870-1961). Belu had a particular position between the Dutch and Portuguese colonial realms, and was thoroughly colonised at a late stage, around the early 20th cent…
Warfare, Bestowal, Purchase
The article investigates the acquisition and exportation of slaves from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Timor Islands in eastern Indonesia, activities that involved interaction between Dutch, Portuguese, and indigenous actors and involved seafarers from South Sulawesi. Similar to several other politically segmented regions that practiced local religions, Timor was the object of slaving by Christian and Muslim traders, while local polities…
Introduction
Introductory essay for a Forum entitled Enslavement and the Slave Trade in Asia. The text highlights the state of the art, the geographcal and historical background, and the conceptual issues in researching slaving in an Asian context
A dam C lulow . Amboina, 1623
On March 9, 1623, twenty-one men, ten of whom were English, were executed on the spice-producing island of Ambon, or Amboina, in what is today the Indonesian province of Maluku (Moluccas). After a rushed and brutal trial they were declared guilty of conspiracy against the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), purportedly aiming to overthrow the Dutch post and possibly murder the crew. This somber event was subsequently flagged in E…
Slaves and Slave Trade in the Timor Area
This study rethinks the patterns of slave-holding and slave trade that can be discerned in small-scale societies in the Timor region of the Indonesian archipelago, especially Timor, the Solor and Alor Islands, Rote, and Savu. It studies how European powers—the Dutch and the Portuguese—influenced the trade in enslaved human beings and how this was balanced by slaving conducted by Asian forces. The study is based in large part on archival sources f…
On the Margins of Colonialism
The Aru Islands are situated at the eastern end of the Indian Ocean, in the southern Moluccas. They are also one of the easternmost places in the world where Islam and Christianity gained a (limited) foothold in the early-modern period, and marked the outer reach of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The present article discusses Western-Arunese relations in the seventeenth century in terms of economic exchange and political networks. Although A…
Bali in the early Nineteenth Century. The ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois, by Helen Creese
Helen Creese, Bali in the early Nineteenth Century. The ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois. Leiden: Brill, 2016, xx + 826 pp. [Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 305]. ISBN 978904315822. Price: EUR 139.00 (hardback)
Ancient Southeast Asia, by John N. Miksic and Geok Yian Goh
[Review of] John N. Miksic and Geok Yian Goh, Ancient Southeast Asia. New York: Routledge.2017. ISBN: 978-0415735537. 119.43 USD (Hardback). 631 pages
Contesting Colonialisms, Contesting Stories
Wetar and Kisar in Indonesia, and East Timor
The article studies a complex of little known historical processes in Southwestern Maluku and East Timor in the late 17th century. These occurred in the intersection between early colonial attempts at political and economic control, and local strategies to either accommodate or avoid such control. The article argues that the aspirations of European or Eurasian groups – the Dutch VOC and the ethnically mixed Portuguese Topasses – allowed certain l…
Contact zones and external connectivities in southern Maluku, Indonesia
Introduction to a thematic journal issue about societies in Southern Maluku and their historical relations with the outside world
The killing of Posthouder Scheerder and Jifar Folfolun (The War of the Breasts)
The Aru Islands in southeastern Maluku have a long history of economic exchange and colonial relations with the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and later the Dutch colonial state. Aru was fragmented in smaller autonomous settlements, of which those in the east produced valuable items for export, such as pearls and tripang (edible sea cucumber). The article focuses on a spate of anti-colonial revolts in the waning days of the VOC in the 1790s. It …
Tamalola; Transregional connectivities, Islam, and anti-colonialism on an Indonesian island
The present study focuses on a set of events in the Aru Islands, Maluku, in the late eighteenth century which are documented in some detail by Dutch records. A violent rebellion with Muslim and anti-European overtones baffled the Dutch colonialists (VOC) and led to a series of humiliations for the Company on Aru, before eventually being subdued. As one of the main catalysts of the conflict stands the chief Tamalola from the Muslim island Ujir. In…
Between resistance and co-operation; Contact zones in Aru Islands in the VOC period
The article is focused on early colonial interaction with the Aru Islands, geographically located in southern Maluku, at the easternmost end of the Indian Ocean world. The study examines how relationships were constructed in the course of the seventeenth century, how they were institutionalized and how this engendered forms of hybridity. Moreover, it discusses forms of resistance and avoidance in relation to the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Ar…
Creating Timorese Futures
Review essay that discusses two volumes concerned with hopes and images of the future on Timor island in the contemporary era. These works are Judith H. Bovensiepen (ed.), The Promise of Prosperity
Savu
Beyond Bali. Subaltern Citizens and Post-Colonial Intimacy, written by Ana Dragojlovic
Hanna Hodacs, Silk and Tea in the North
[Review of] Hanna Hodacs, Silk and Tea in the North: Scandinavian Trade and the Market for Asian Goods in Eighteenth-century Europe : (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). 216 s
Timor and Colonial Conquest
In 1905–1906 the Dutch colonial state ended the autonomy of the inland of West Timor, hitherto home to the prestigious but crumbling Sonba’i Dynasty. The article addresses the problems and possibilities of writing the history of this traumatic event, which is described in several colonial reports and memorandums, while the Timorese did not leave written texts. A number of oral accounts were recorded in the 1960s by local historian F. H. Fobia, so…
Shaping a Dutch East Indies
Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea
European traders and soldiers established a foothold on Timor in the course of the seventeenth century, motivated by the quest for the commercially vital sandalwood and the intense competition between the Dutch and the Portuguese. Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea focuses on two centuries of contacts between the indigenous polities on Timor and the early colonials, and covers the period 1600-1800. In contrast with most previous studies, the boo…
The Slaves of Timor
The history of slavery is by no means untouched, and there are now even ambitious global histories of the phenomenon in print. On the other hand, it is clear that much of the literature on this sombre side of human society has concentrated on the Transatlantic slave trade and non-free labour in the Americas. The relative wealth of documents in Western languages has presumably contributed to give the historiography of slavery a Western centre of g…
Rebellions or factionalism? Timorese forms of resistance in an early colonial context, 1650-1769
The history of Timor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is interspersed with conflicts where indigenous groups opposed polities with a partly European background. In Western historiography such conflicts are usually portrayed as rebellions against a given European colonial apparatus (Morais 1934; Leitão 1952; Boxer 1968). A closer look, however, reveals these events to be quite complex affairs, which raises questions about the nature of …
Savu
Bali in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Suggestions for a chronology of the Gelgel period
The article studies the sources for the Gelgel kingdom ob Bali, Indonesia, which is the subject of much uncertainty and controversy. The author collates Iberian and Dutch archival sources with categories of Balinese historiography, and arrives at conclusions at variance with a previous study by Dr. Helen Creese
Slaves and Slave Trade in the Timor Area
This study rethinks the patterns of slave-holding and slave trade that can be discerned in small-scale societies in the Timor region of the Indonesian archipelago, especially Timor, the Solor and Alor Islands, Rote, and Savu. It studies how European powers—the Dutch and the Portuguese—influenced the trade in enslaved human beings and how this was balanced by slaving conducted by Asian forces. The study is based in large part on archival sources f…
On the Margins of Colonialism
The Aru Islands are situated at the eastern end of the Indian Ocean, in the southern Moluccas. They are also one of the easternmost places in the world where Islam and Christianity gained a (limited) foothold in the early-modern period, and marked the outer reach of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The present article discusses Western-Arunese relations in the seventeenth century in terms of economic exchange and political networks. Although A…
Eastern Indonesia and the Writing of History
The present article is a discussion of the proliferation of history-writing about eastern Indonesia (mainly Nusa Tenggara, Maluku and Papua) and Timor-Leste during the last decades. While a substantial corpus of Portuguese historical writings on Timor-Leste appeared up to the 1970s, very little was done in respect to eastern Indonesia, at any rate after decolonization. However, a number of anthropologists have included studies of historical data …
A note on Ade
In a recent issue of Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Andrew McWilliam undertakes an interesting study of the elusive traditional Timorese domain of Ade, which is often mentioned in Portuguese and Dutch sources of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His conclusion is briefly that there is a close affinity with the domain of Vemasse (Oymassin) on the north coast of present Timor Leste. While I agree with his conclusion, I would …
From Batuparang to Ayudhya; Bali and the outside world, 1636-1656
The article contains an in-depth study of the Balinese kingdom of Gelgel and its relations with external polities in the mid 17th century. These included Siam, the VOC, Lombok, Makassar, and Matara
Tamalola; Transregional connectivities, Islam, and anti-colonialism on an Indonesian island
The present study focuses on a set of events in the Aru Islands, Maluku, in the late eighteenth century which are documented in some detail by Dutch records. A violent rebellion with Muslim and anti-European overtones baffled the Dutch colonialists (VOC) and led to a series of humiliations for the Company on Aru, before eventually being subdued. As one of the main catalysts of the conflict stands the chief Tamalola from the Muslim island Ujir. In…
An East Timorese Domain
The East Timorese kingdom Luca is described as the hegemon of the eastern parts of Timor in some nineteenth-century works. This is gainsaid by other data, which point to the existence of a multitude of petty kingdoms. This article scrutinizes Luca’s claim to power from a number of angles, utilizing European records and contemporary anthropological fieldwork. First, we analyse the claims of the centre as reflected in colonial and indigenous narrat…
The Orientalism Debate and the Chinese Wall
In 1978 a hefty monograph, entitled Orientalism , appeared that would, in its own way, come to constitute a landmark in the history of Asian studies - to the satisfaction of some and the resentment of others. The author of this work, American-Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said, appealed to a wide intellectual circle, which was also shown by the sheer number of reviews in Anglo-Saxon papers and periodicals: there were at least sixty of them …
Reply to Dr. Helen Creese
A rejoinder to a contribution by Dr. Helen Creese, discussing some matters of method and sources with regard to the chronology of the Gelgel kingdom of Bali, Indonesia, in the pre-modern era
Bali in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Suggestions for a chronology of the Gelgel period
The article studies the sources for the Gelgel kingdom ob Bali, Indonesia, which is the subject of much uncertainty and controversy. The author collates Iberian and Dutch archival sources with categories of Balinese historiography, and arrives at conclusions at variance with a previous study by Dr. Helen Creese
The Orientalism Debate and the Chinese Wall
In 1978 a hefty monograph, entitled Orientalism , appeared that would, in its own way, come to constitute a landmark in the history of Asian studies - to the satisfaction of some and the resentment of others. The author of this work, American-Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said, appealed to a wide intellectual circle, which was also shown by the sheer number of reviews in Anglo-Saxon papers and periodicals: there were at least sixty of them …
From Batuparang to Ayudhya; Bali and the outside world, 1636-1656
The article contains an in-depth study of the Balinese kingdom of Gelgel and its relations with external polities in the mid 17th century. These included Siam, the VOC, Lombok, Makassar, and Matara
Periphery and bridgehead
The article provides a historical syntesis of West Bali as a region, showing how this often neglected part of the island has served as bridgehead to Java/Central Indonesia in spite of its peripherical political position
War and Culture
This paper on Balinese and Sasak views on warfare in a historiographical perspective opens with an overview of the specifics of the babad genre. It then considers material aspects of the babad accounts, such as weaponry and tactics, and how they contrast with contemporary Western accounts of the pre-modern era. The paper then discusses the idea of causality – the causes of war according to these accounts, and how wars are inserted into the genera…
White and Dark Stranger Kings
The article explores the common Southeast Asian epistemological theme of a “stranger king” as an ordering principle in a polity, a principle that was also relevant in a colonial context. The case studied here is the Dutch colonial post in Kupang, West Timor, in the VOC period, 1653-1800. The Dutch fort was surrounded by five princedoms, which stood in the relation of subordinate allies to the VOC. Four of the five groups had migrated to Kupang du…
A note on Ade
In a recent issue of Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Andrew McWilliam undertakes an interesting study of the elusive traditional Timorese domain of Ade, which is often mentioned in Portuguese and Dutch sources of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His conclusion is briefly that there is a close affinity with the domain of Vemasse (Oymassin) on the north coast of present Timor Leste. While I agree with his conclusion, I would …
Rebellions or factionalism? Timorese forms of resistance in an early colonial context, 1650-1769
The history of Timor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is interspersed with conflicts where indigenous groups opposed polities with a partly European background. In Western historiography such conflicts are usually portrayed as rebellions against a given European colonial apparatus (Morais 1934; Leitão 1952; Boxer 1968). A closer look, however, reveals these events to be quite complex affairs, which raises questions about the nature of …
Responding to the West
In Responding to the West geven geschiedkundigen en sociologen hun visie op de methodologie en studie van het kolonialisme in Azië als historisch fenomeen. De negen essays geven hiervan een veelzijdig beeld. Ondanks de structurele onderdrukking was kolonialisme geen kwestie van eenrichtingsverkeer. De studie ervan vereist dan ook een grondige analyse van de continu veranderende verhoudingen tussen kolonisten en gekoloniseerden. Met Responding to …
Cannibals and Pedlars
The Alor islands in Nusa Tenggara Timur, comprising mainly Alor and Pantar, have been studied more extensively by anthropologists than historians. Conventional historical sources are comparatively rare and difficult to interpret. This article contextualises the neglected group of islands by establishing its place in the political and economic networks of early modern insular Southeast Asia in the period c.1600–1850. By comparing Dutch and Portugu…
The Slaves of Timor
The history of slavery is by no means untouched, and there are now even ambitious global histories of the phenomenon in print. On the other hand, it is clear that much of the literature on this sombre side of human society has concentrated on the Transatlantic slave trade and non-free labour in the Americas. The relative wealth of documents in Western languages has presumably contributed to give the historiography of slavery a Western centre of g…
Index
Appendix 3
Appendix 2
Preliminary Material
Glossary
Appendix 1
Pascal-Jean-Balthazar and his Timorese Background
Timor was not well-known to the European public in the early-modern era, although it was partly dominated by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Portuguese. Nevertheless a previous study by Anne Lombard-Jourdan has mapped the captivating career of Pascal-Jean-Balthazar, a person of Asian origins who arrived to France in 1750 and claimed to be the son of the ruler of Solor and Timor, corresponding to the Black Portuguese leader Gaspar da Co…
The colonial official as ethnographer; VOC documents as resources for social history in eastern Indonesia
The present article departs from the inherent problems of grasping the voice of the subaltern other in a colonial context. While postcolonial theoreticians have occasionally spoken pessimistically about the possibilities of reconstructing the agency of dominated categories of non-Westerners, recent research on early Southeast Asia has on the contrary envisaged new lines of inquiry through an ingenious use of the extant sources, preferably through…
Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea
European traders and soldiers established a foothold on Timor in the course of the seventeenth century, motivated by the quest for the commercially vital sandalwood and the intense competition between the Dutch and the Portuguese. Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea focuses on two centuries of contacts between the indigenous polities on Timor and the early colonials, and covers the period 1600-1800. In contrast with most previous studies, the boo…
Lay Atjien Liok and the Lidak War of 1852
This article deals with the intersection of indigenous agency, colonial governance, and the political and economic influence shored up by individual Chinese migrants in eastern Indonesia in the 19th century. In the mid 19th century, Dutch and Portuguese colonial rule on Timor was still indirect and lacking in resources. This gave the opportunity for regional polities to be largely independent. The actions of a merchant called Lay Atjien Liok trig…
Cycles of Queenship on Timor
Cycles de royauté féminine à Timor : une réponse à Douglas Kammen. Le présent article se veut une réplique à l’étude récente de Douglas Kammen “ Queens of Timor” (Archipel 84, 2012). Étudiant les nombreuses petites entités politiques («royaumes » ) du Timor portugais, Kammen y relève la remarquable multiplication de dirigeantes féminines au cours du XIXe siècle, phénomène expliqué par l’interaction entre maison, royaume et administration colonial…
The Native as Exemplum
In the year 1819, three years after the British return of the East Indies to the Netherlands, a young man of twenty arrived to Kupang, a port on the coast of West Timor. Kupang was by no means a large place but it was the centre of Dutch colonial power over this part of Indonesia, and its administration monitored the various islands that the Netherlands laid claim to: Solor, Alor, Rote, Savu, and others. This task was made the more difficult sinc…
The Fictitious World Traveller
Travel writing soared in the Western world in the early-modern era with the widening geographical knowledge. This was accompanied by a genre of travel fiction. The present study analyses a short Swedish novella from 1815, Swensken på Timor (The Swede on Timor), 'translated' by Christina Cronhjelm from a purported English account. It is a romantic tale of a Swedish sailor who is shipwrecked and is adopted by an indigenous group on the Southeast As…
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