East Timor Law Journal
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WEAVING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER: IDENTITIES AND TRADITIONS IN EAST TIMOR
Natali Pride BA(Hons) UNSW 2002



BIBLIOGRAPHY

Note on sources

The references listed here include a wide variety of historical documents, including newspaper, magazine and journal articles, media releases, interviews, exhibition catalogues and books.  The limited Indonesian language material available resulted in reliance of interviews conducted in East Timor over a three-week period in February 2002, the details of which are listed below.


Newspaper, Magazine and Online Articles

Australia Post, East Timor’s Stamp on History, media release, June 2002

Bennett, James, “Textile Art of Indonesia and Australia”, in ART AsiaPacific, Australia, no. 3, July 1994

Bennett, James, “Textiles of Timor: Cloth That Binds Across Borders”, in ART AsiaPacific Australia, no. 18, 1998, pp. 42-47

Bennett, James, “East Timor Museum: A Past and No Future?” in ART AsiaPacific Australia, no. 30, 2001, pp. 39-41

Bennett, James, “Tiki Ikat: Indonesian and Australian Aboriginal Textile Art”, in ART AsiaPacific, Australia, no. 3, 1994, pp. 94-103

Bennett, James, “East Timor Museum: A Collection Abandoned” in Orientations, No. 9, 2000, pp. 105-106

Cohen, Margot, “East Timor Attempts to Revive Portuguese Language”, Far Eastern Economic Review, 11 April 2002

Cotton, James, “East Timor: Political History Lecture Online”, Department of Defence, 18 November 1999, http://www.pol.adfa.edu.au/resources/timor4.html

Editorial, “East Timor gets its tongues in a tangle”, in Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 15, 2002

Jaffer, Mehru, “Portugal Review Sukarno’s visit to in 1960” [sic], in The Jakarta Post, 9 June 2002

Kammerer, Peter, “Divided by an uncommon language” in South China Morning Post, May 19, 2002

Mandelson, Alix, “Tais from East Timor”, in Australian Handweaver and Spinner, Vol.54, 2001, pp. 10-11

Meehan, Karen, “Weaving a new culture”, Dramatic Online, 19 December 2001 www.dramaticonline.com/view/cont.asp?Id=11030

Murray, Alison and Veronica Pereira Maia, “Motifs in East Timorese Art: Images in Tattoos and Weaving”, Inside Indonesia, Vol. 41, 1994, pp. 30-32

Niner, Sarah, Report & Update: East Timorese Textiles (Tais) Exhibition & Weaving Women’s Stories, http://www.craftvic.asn.au/project/tais/niner.htm 5 September 2001

Quinn, George, “Indonesia Essential for the Future of East Timor”, in The Canberra Times, 26 June 2001, p. 9

Sexton, Jennifer and Sophie Morris, “NGA’s $6.5m Textile Scoop”, in The Australian, 19 June 2002, p. 5

Stevens, Melanie, Project Proposal: Traditional Crafts Marketing Feasibility Study, Dili: via email, April 2002

Verghis, Sharon, “Sultan Comes to Dinner to Celebrate $6.5m purchase”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 June 2002, p. 5


Books and Journal Articles

Achjadi, Judi, Pakaian Daerah Wanita Indonesia, Jakarta: Penerbit Djambatan, 1976

Adams, Marie Jeanne, System and Meaning in East Sumba Textile Design, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1969

Adam, Marie Jeanne, “Structural Aspects of East Sumbanese Art” in Fox , James (Ed.) The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980

Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso, 1983

Anderson, Benedict, “East Timor and Indonesia: Some Implications”, in Peter Carey and G C Bentley (Eds.), East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation, Honolulu: University of Hawaii,1995, pp. 137-147

Appadurai, Arjun (Ed.), The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Barnes, Ruth and Joanne B. Eicher (Eds.), Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning, Oxford; London: Berg Publishers, 1993

Barnes, Ruth, “Women as Headhunters: The Making and Meaning of Textiles in a Southeast Asian Context”, in Barnes, Ruth and Joanne B. Eicher (Eds.), Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning, Oxford; London: Berg Publishers, 1993

Barnes, Ruth H., Seahunters of Indonesia: Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera, Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996

Boxer, C. R. “Portuguese Timor: A Rough Island Story: 1515-1960”, in History Today Vol. 10, Amsterdam: Insich Instituut, 1960, pp.349-355.

Brenner, Suzanne April, The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth and Modernity in Java, Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University, 1998

Bridgewood, Ann, “Dancing the Jar: Girls’ Dress at Turkish Cypriot Weddings” in Eicher, J.B., Dress and Ethnicity, Oxford; Washington: Berg., 1995

Brydon, Anne and Sandra Niessen (Eds.), Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body, Oxford; New York: Berg Publishers, 1998

Cannadine, David, “The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British monarchy and the invention of tradition, c. 1820-1977” in Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger, (Eds.), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983

Cappell, Arthur, “Peoples and Languages of Timor”, in Oceania, in three parts: Vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 191-219 and pp. 311-337; Vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 19-48, 1944

Carey, Peter and G C Bentley (Eds.), East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation, Honolulu: University of Hawaii,1995

Chapkis, Wendy, and Cynthia Enloe, Of Common Cloth: Women in the Global Textile Industry, Amsterdam; Washington DC: Transnational Institute, 1983

Chapkis, Wendy, Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance, London: Women's Press, 1988

Comaroff, J., and Comaroff, J., Ethnography and the Historical Imagination, Westview: Boulder, 1992

Cowan, C. D., and O. W. Wolters, (Eds.), Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D. G. E. Hall, Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976

Cribb, Robert, Historical Atlas of Indonesia, Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000

Croese, Megan R., Diamonds and Crocodiles: A Comparative Study of the Textiles of the Atoni and Tetum of West Timor, North Queensland: James Cook University, 1995

Cunningham, C, “Soba: An Atoni Village in West Timor’, in Koentjaraningrat (Ed.), Villages in Indonesia, London: Cornell University Press, 1967

Davidson, K.G., The Portuguese Colonisation of Timor: The Final Stage, Sydney: University of New South Wales PhD Thesis, 1994

Dirks, N. (Ed.), Colonialism and Culture, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992

Dunn, James, Timor: A People Betrayed, Milton: Jacaranda, 1983

Durham, Deborah, “The Lady in the Logo: Tribal Dress and Western Culture in a Southern African Community”, in Eicher, J.B., Dress and Ethnicity, Oxford; Washington: Berg., 1995

Eicher, J.B., Dress and Ethnicity, Oxford; Washington: Berg., 1995

Elliott, Inger McCabe, Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1984

Farram, Steve, “The Two Timors: The Partitioning of Timor by the Portuguese and the Dutch” from Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor, University of Western Sydney, Vol. 2, 1999

Fischer, Joseph (Ed.), Threads of Tradition: Textiles of Indonesia and Sarawak, Berkeley, California: Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University Art Museum, Berkeley, University of California, 1979

Fischer, Joseph, “The Character and Study of Indonesian Textiles”, in Gittinger, Mattiebelle, (Ed.) Indonesian Textiles: Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles, 1979 Proceedings, 1979

Fischer, Joseph, (Ed.), Modern Indonesian Art, Jakarta; New York: Festival of Indonesia, 1990

Franks, Emma, “ Women and Resistance in East Timor: The Centre, As
They Say, Knows Itself by the Margins" in Women's Studies International Forum 19, 1996, pp. 155-168

Foley, W, “History of Migrations in Indonesia as seen by a linguist’, in James Fox (Ed.) Indonesia: The Making of a Culture, Australian National University, Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980

Forbes, Anna, Insulinde, 1887; reprinted as Unbeaten Tracks In Islands of the Far East, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987

Forshee, Jill and Christina Fink (Eds.), Converging Interests: Traders, Travellers and Tourists in Southeast Asia, Berkeley, California: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 1999

Forshee, Jill, Between the Folds: Stories of Cloths, Lives and Travels from Sumba, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000

Fox, James, “Bad Death and the Left hand: A study of Rotinese Symbolic Inversions”, in Needham, R., (Ed), Right and Left: Essays on Dual Classification, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973

Fox , James (Ed.) The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980

Fox, James, (Ed.) Indonesia: The Making of a Culture, Australian National University, Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980

Fox, James, “Category and Complement: Binary Ideologies and the Organisation of
Dualism in Eastern Indonesia”, in David Maybury-Lewis, and Uri Almagor, (Eds.), The
Attraction of Opposites: Thought and Society in the Dualistic Mode, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989

Fox, James, and Soares, D. B. (Eds.), Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor, Adelaide: Crawford House, 2001

Fraser-Lu, Sylvia, Handwoven Textiles of Southeast Asia, Singapore; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988

Friedberg, Claudine, (translated from the French by Elizabeth Traube) “Boiled Woman and Broiled Man: Myths and Agricultural Rituals of the Bunaq of Central Timor” in Fox, James (Ed.) The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980

Geertz, Clifford, The Interpretations of Cultures, London: Hutchinson, 1975

Gillow, J., Traditional Indonesian Textiles, London: Thames and Hudson, 1995

Gittinger, Mattiebelle, (Ed.) Indonesian Textiles: Irene Emery Roundtable on Museum Textiles, 1979 Proceedings, 1979

Gittinger, Mattiebelle, Masters Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Washington D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982

Gittinger, Mattiebelle, (Ed.) To Speak with Cloth: Studies in Indonesian Textiles, California: University of California, 1989

Gittinger, Mattiebelle, Splendid Symbols: Textiles and Traditions in Indonesia, Melbourne: Oxford University Press and Australian National Gallery, 1990

Goncalves, Sancho, Menenun Tais Warisan Leluhur, unpublished (personal communication), February 2002

Goody, Esther N. (Ed.), From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982

Gusmao, Xanana, To resist is to win!: The autobiography of Xanana Gusmao with selected letters & speeches, Richmond: Aurora Books 2000

Hall, S., “National Cultures as ‘Imagined Communities’”, in S. Hall, D. Held and T. McGrew (Eds.), Modernity and its Futures, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992

Henley, D.E.F., Nationalism and Regionalism in a Colonial Context, Leiden: KITLV, 1996

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Hicks, David, Tetum Ghosts and Kin: Fieldwork in an Indonesian Community, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1976

Hicks, David, “A Transitional Relationship Terminology of Asymmetric
Prescriptive Alliance among the Makassai of Eastern Indonesia” in Sociologus no. 33, 1983, pp. 73-85

Hicks, David, “Unachieved Syncretism: The Local Level Political System in
Portuguese Timor, 1966-1967” in Anthropos 78, 1983, pp. 17-40

Hicks, David, A Maternal Religion: The Role of Women in Tetum Myth and Ritual, Detroit, Michigan: Northern Illinois University Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 1984

Hicks, David, Kinship and Religion in Eastern Indonesia, Gothenburg, Sweden: ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1990

Hill, Helen, The Timor Story, Victoria, Australia: Timor Information Service, 1976

Hiorth, F., Timor: Past and Present, Townsville: James Cook University, 1985

Hitchcock, M., Indonesian Textile Techniques, Aylesbury, Bucks, United Kingdom; Cincinnati, Ohio: Shire Publications, 1985

Hitchcock, M., Indonesian Textiles, Singapore: Periplus Editions, 1991

Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger, (Eds.), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983

Hoskins, Janet, “Why do Ladies Sing the Blues? Indigo Dyeing, Cloth Production, and Gender Symbolism in Kodi”, in Weiner, A., and Schneider, J., (Eds.), Cloth and Human Experience, Washington; London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989

Howard, Michael, Textiles of Southeast Asia, Bangkok: White Lotus, 1994

Hull, Geoffrey, “East Timor and Indonesia: The Cultural Factors of Incompatibility”, in Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor, University of Western Sydney, Vol. 2, 1999

Hull, Geoffrey, “The Languages of East Timor: 1772-1997: A Literature Review”, in Studies in Languages and Cultures of East Timor, University of Western Sydney, 1999

Hull, Geoffrey, East Timor: Identity, Language and Educational Policy, Lecture, University of Western Sydney, at Instituto Nacional de Lingui¬stica, Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosae, 17 October 2000

Hull, Geoffrey, The Languages of East Timor: Some Basic Facts, Dili: Instituto Nacional de Linguística, Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosae, 2002

Indonesia: Departemen Luar Negeri, East Timor After Integration, Jakarta: Department of Information, Republic of Indonesia, 1983

Jolliffe, Jill, East Timor: Nationalism & Colonialism, St Lucia: University of Queensland, 1978

Joseph, Nathan, Uniforms and Non-Uniforms: Communication Through Clothing, New York: Greenwood Press, 1986

Kartiwa, Suwarti, Tenun Ikat, Jakarta: Penerbit Djambatan, 1987

Kartiwa, Suwati, Kain Songket Indonesia, Jakarta: Penerbit Djambatan, 1996

Kartomi, M. J. [et al.], Five Essays on the Indonesian Arts, Melbourne: Monash University1981

Kennett, Frances, Ethnic Dress: A Comprehensive Guide to the Folk Costumes of the World, Great Britain: Reed Consumer Books Limited, 1994

Kent, Ellen, Tradisi Tato dan Motif-Motif Kain Suku Bangsa Tetun Timor Barat, Yogyakarta: Unpublished (Personal Communication) 2001

King-Boyes, M., Eden to Paradise, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1963

Koentjaraningrat (Ed.), Villages in Indonesia, London: Cornell University Press, 1967

Kumar, Ann and John McGlynn (eds.), Illuminations: The Writing Traditions of Indonesia, Jakarta: Lontar, 1996

Kuper, H., “Costume and Identity” in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 15, no. 1, 1973 pp. 348-367

Lazarowitz, T. F., The Makassai: Complementary Dualism in Timor, Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1980

LeBar, Frank M. (Ed.), Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia: Volume 1: Indonesia, Andaman Islands, and Madagascar, New Haven, Connecticut: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1972

Lefferts, H. Leedom, “Review Article: Southeast Asian Textiles: New Research and Writing”, in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 23, no. 1, 1992, pp. 405-417

Lenor Larsen, J., The Dyers Art: Ikat, Batik, Plangi, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976

Levi-Strauss, Claude, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, 1963

Lewis, E. Douglas, People of the Source, Leiden: Foris Publications, 1988

Lurie, A., The Language of Clothes, London: Bloomsbury, 1992

Maier, H. M. J., “From Heteroglossia to Polyglossia: The Creation of Malay and Dutch in the Indies”, Indonesia 56, October 1993, pp. 37-65

Martinkus, John, A Dirty Little War, Sydney: Random House Australia, 2001

Matheson Hooker, V. (Ed.), Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1993

Maxwell, Robyn, Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation, Canberra: Oxford University Press, 1990

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McWilliam, Andrew, “Case Studies in dual classification as process: childbirth, headhunting and circumcision in West Timor”, in Oceania, Vol. 65, no. 1, September 1994

Molnar, Andrea K., “Use of Traditional Textiles of Ngada”, in Brydon, Anne and Sandra Niessen (Eds.), Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body, Oxford; New York: Berg Publishers, 1998

Morgan, Rachel, Weavers of Biboki-weavers of Maningrida, Textile Fibre Forum Australia, Vol. 14, no. 2, 1995, pp. 36-7

Morlanes, Teresa Farreras, East Timorese Ethno-Nationalism: A Search for Identity: Cultural and Political Self-Determination, PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, 1991

Moss, Laurence, “International Art Collecting, Tourism and a Tribal region” in Paul Michael Taylor (Ed.), Fragile Traditions: Indonesian Art in Jeopardy, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994

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Needham, R., (Ed), Right and Left: Essays on Dual Classification, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973

Newton, Douglas, Arts of the South Seas: Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia – the Collection of the Musee Barbier-Mueller, Munich; London; New York: Prestel Verlag, 1999

Nicol, Bill, Timor: The Stillborn Nation, Camberwell: Widescope, 1978

Niessen, S.A., Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Textiles, Dordrect: Foris Publications, 1985

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Rodgers, Susan, “Book Review of ‘Between the Folds: Stories of Cloths, Lives and Travels from Sumba’ by Jill Forshee” in Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 60, no. 3, 2001, pp. 918-919

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Web sources:

http://www.etimortais.org
This virtual museum looks at materials used for older and newer pieces, looms and other machinery, patterns, motifs and meanings, as well as the changing scene and the loss of expertise in weaving and knowledge of patterns

http://www.craftvic.asn.au/project/tais
Craft Victoria Site with photos of the Weaving Women’s Stories Exhibition coordinated by Sarah Niner.

http://www.geocities.com/alola_foundation/
Home page for the Alola Foundation; includes an outline of the Weaving Women’s Stories Exhibition

www.etan.org/lh/default.htm(l)
L’ao Hamutuk Home page

www.undp.org/
United Nations Development Program Home page

www.nusa-tenggara.com/east/html/weaving.html
General information on weaving techniques in Nusa Tenggara

http://etcc.anu.edu.au/artforms.html
East Timorese Cultural Centre

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_etimor.html
Online bibliography compiled by Robert Lawless

http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/etimor.htm
Provides a background, chronology and facts and figures of the United Nations mission in East Timor, as well as a map of the island itself.

Exhibition Catalogues

Australian National Gallery, Cultures at Crossroads: Southeast Asian Textiles from the Australian National Gallery, Canberra: Studies on Asian Art, 1992

Bensaun Tuba-rai Metin: Firmly Gripping the Earth, Fairfield: East Timor Cultural Centre, 1997

Departmen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Pameran Koleksi Museum, Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan: Museum Negeri Propinsi Timor Timur, 1993-1994

Departmen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Pengrajin Tradisional Daerah Timor Timur, Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan: Museum Negeri Propinsi Timor Timur, 1993 -1994

Departmen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Motif Seni Ragam Hias Geometris, Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan: Museum Negeri Propinsi Timor Timur, 1996

Departmen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Pameran Khusus Tais Timor Timur, Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan: Museum Negeri Propinsi Timor Timur, March 1997

Exhibition of Textiles from Nusa Tenggara Timur from the Collection of Detlef Frietz Dirksen, Melbourne, The Gallery, 1985

Holmgren, R.J., and Anita E. Spertus, Early Indonesian Textiles from Three Island Cultures, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989

Leaving the Crocodile: The Story of the East Timorese Community in Sydney, (Exhibition Catalogue) Liverpool Regional Museum, August 2001

Leibrick, Fiona, Motif-motif Biboki, Darwin: Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1993

Leibrick, Fiona, Binding Culture in Thread: Textile Arts of Biboki, Darwin: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory/CSEAS NTU Publications, 1994

Niner, Sarah, Weaving Women’s Stories: East Timorese Tais Textiles Exhibition Guide, September 2001, Gasworks, Melbourne International Arts Festival

Sumner, Christina, with Milton Osborne, Arts of Southeast Asia: From the Powerhouse Museum Collection, Sydney: Powerhouse Publishing, 2001

Textiles of Indonesia, Victoria: Indonesian Arts Society in conjunction with The National Gallery of Victoria, 1979

Tais – An Illustrated Guide, Timorese Australia Council. from “Leaving the Crocodile” Exhibition, Liverpool Regional Museum, August 2001


Interviews/Oral Histories

Araujo, Maria Immaculada
Yayasan Murak Rai,
16 February 2002
Dili, East Timor

Bennett, James
Curator of Southeast Asian Art and Material Culture,
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
29 January 2002
Darwin, Australia

Cardoso, Pilomeno
Tais seller
17 February 2002
Pasar Tais, Dili, East Timor

da Costa, Tina
2 February, 2002
Dili, East Timor

de Oliveira, Jacinto
12 February 2002
Dili, East Timor

dos Santos, Domingos
Tais seller
17 February 2002
Pasar Tais, Dili, East Timor

Fatima, Maria
Yaysan Murak Rai
5 February 2002
Dili, East Timor

Gomes, Luciano
Tais seller
6 February 2002
Pasar Tais, Dili, East Timor

Napoleao, Ofelia
Manager
Weaving and Sewing Program
Timor Aid
6 February 2002
Dili, East Timor

Sherlock, Kevin,
[Compiler of A Bibliography of Timor: Including East (formerly Portuguese) Timor, West (formerly Dutch) Timor and the Island of Roti, Canberra: Australian National University Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980]
1 February 2002
Darwin, Australia

Stevens, Melanie
7 February 2002
Dili, East Timor

Vos, Ana
17 February 2002
Dili, East Timor



































Figure 6.1 Pasar Tais, Dili: Luciano Gomes (left) with Sancho Goncalves.  Sancho
is holding a tais from Ainaro (Photo: Natali Pride, February 2002)