White and Dark Stranger Kings: Kupang in the Early Colonial Era
The article explores the common Southeast Asian epistemological theme of a “stranger king” as an ordering principle in a polity, a principle that was also relevant in a colonial context. The case studied here is the Dutch colonial post in Kupang, West Timor, in the VOC period, 1653-1800. The Dutch f...
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Université de Provence
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Moussons |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/1510 |