Parasitism in Colonial Interactions

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ID20051777
AuthorsRicardo Roque (0000-0002-7507-2506)
Year2010
Pages17-39
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHeadhunting and Colonialism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230251335_2
OpenAlexW2489456852
ISBN9780230251335
LanguageEN
References cited31

In historical as in anthropological approaches a dichotomous idiom prevails in the description of European intrusions into indigenous societies. ‘Barbaric’ practices, such as headhunting, figure prominently in this imagery: they are doomed to elimination by European colonialism that imposed ’civilization’ on ‘savage’ and exotic tribes. Recently, this colonial idiom has been criticized by post-colonial theoreticians who resort to the concept of hybridity. This chapter argues, however, that both colonial and post-colonial vocabularies are inadequate to describe symbiotic associations between indigenous and European realms, in particular between headhunting and pacification in colonial Timor, and provides an alternative analytical framework. Building on the notion of mutual parasitism, a new way of conceptualizing intimate colonial interactions between the European and indigenous collectives is proposed

Archaeology · Biology · Civilization · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Hybridity · Indigenous · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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