Uma Lulik as Heritage

Authorised Heritage Discourse in Timor-Leste

Bibliographic Data

ID3906118
AuthorsCarolina Boldoni (0000-0002-1258-810X, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume33
Issue33
Publication date2020-06-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venuee-cadernos CES (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1647-0737 • E-ISSN: 1647-0737
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/eces.5298
OpenAlexW3108208735
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited23

Timor-Leste has endured different foreign presences: the Portuguese colonisation (1515-1974), the Indonesian military occupation (1974-1999) and, since the restoration of the national independence (2002) which has been defined the “NGOs invasion” (Brunnstrom, 2003). These different governances have produced various Authorised Heritage Discourses – AHD (Smith, 2006) whose echoes are traceable in the current national AHD. This paper, based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, shows the entanglements between the previous colonial AHDs and the current one in Timor-Leste, in regard to ancestral houses (uma lulik). The aim is to examine heritage as a historical process by showing how the current post-colonial AHD is affected by the inference of the past and colonial perspectives on the local heritage, producing and reproducing neo-colonial governmentalities

Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Indonesian · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · Timor leste · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Peacebuilding and International Security

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