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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Indonesia
2012-10-01
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Series: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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Online Access: | http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/68 |