Abstract
Reflecting on the violence in Papua and how this is shaping Papuan
lifeworlds and triggers attempts to disengage from Indonesian and Dutch
imperialism, we, I Ngurah Suryawan and Jaap Timmer, position ourselves
as nationals from colonising states—one current, Indonesia and one
historic, Netherlands—in relation to our anthropological research in
Papua. We came to the long-drawn-out conflict and growing affirmations
of cultural autonomy in Papua from different backgrounds, and this has
affected the way in which we try to contribute to remedy decades of
violence. Yet, as we will show, we converge in the way we recognise that
a key role we can play as anthropologists is to contribute to a better
understanding of Papuan cultures and more appreciation of their creative
expressions and to enable, for Papuans, a decolonial epistemology.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 269-276 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 6 Jun 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
Keywords
- alternative histories
- anthropology
- colonisation
- Indonesia
- violence
- West Papua