Local Intermediaries? The Missionising and Governing of Colonial Subjects in South Dutch New Guinea, 1920–42
| Autor: | Maaike Derksen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
History Government 060101 anthropology Civilization Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject New guinea 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Dual (grammatical number) Colonialism 060104 history Intermediary Economy Collusion Economic history 0601 history and archaeology Point of departure media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Pacific History. 51:111-142 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9605 0022-3344 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00223344.2016.1195075 |
| Popis: | This paper will show that the colonial project in south Dutch New Guinea was a joint project in which evangelisation, education, ‘civilisation’ and ‘pacification’ were taken up by the Dutch Catholic mission in close collusion with the colonial government. This was also a project in which a few Dutch missionaries deployed many goeroes (teachers) from elsewhere in the Dutch East Indies. These goeroes had an important position assigned to them by the Catholic mission and colonial government in the development of the Papuans and the area. This colonial structure utilised by both Dutch colonial administrators and missionaries has been labelled in the literature as a system of ‘dual colonialism’. Drawing on records held in missionary and colonial archives, the paper explores this dual colonial structure by analysing the roles of Catholic goeroes from the Kei and Tanimbar islands. This is done by taking Felix Driver’s concept of local intermediaries as the point of departure. While this concept makes vis... |
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