Diplomacy in the Villages
VOC Agreements and Disagreements with Stateless Societies in Southeastern Maluku in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2871628 |
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| Authors | Hans Hägerdal (0000-0002-4758-191X, Linnaeus University https://dx.doi.org/249958 Växjö Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 180 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 319-350 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-bja10062 |
| OpenAlex | W4404653367 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
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 sagu. The efforts to create stable alliances with the villages were complicated by several factors, including the dualism between the Ulisiwa-Ulilima moieties; the rivalry between the VOC-influenced western and the fiercely autonomous eastern villages; the existence of pela alliances with other Malukan groups; and practical difficulties in maintaining VOC commercial monopolies. The article discusses the inception of diplomatic relations; the violent conflict that arose in the early phase of VOC domination; and the efforts to maintain stability using local negotiatory practices, which finally broke down in the 1780s
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