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‘A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers’ narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola’
History and AnthropologyMaria José Lobo Antunes
Abstract: How do soldiers recall and voice their wartime experiences when the war they fought is under scrutiny? How do they inscribe the recollection of private affairs in a potentially contested colonial past? Drawing from an ethnography of war memory and focusing on an artillery unit’s deployment in the Portuguese colonial war in Angola, in 1971, this article tackles both the soldiers’ memories and the military reports about the unit’s length of service. It articulates and contrasts the formulaic order of the official account with the veterans’ affective storytelling, to unearth the cracks that run beneath the reconfiguration of colonial war violence in Angola. Soldiers’ narratives, it will be argued, avoid the wars’ dystopic potential by dislocating attention to the affective reverberation of the past and by silencing accounts of bloodshed. And yet, they are unable to fully de-politicize their wartime stories, as soldiers unwittingly disclose episodes of sexual violence against African women, hence exposing the enduring entanglements of sexuality, race and colonialism.
Keywords: Portuguese colonial war, memory, violence, military archives, Angola
Full citation: (2020) A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers’ narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola, History and Anthropology, DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1786381
The Portuguese Army in Late-Eighteenth-Century Brazil: A Colonial Elite or a Metropolitan Force?
Article in War & SocietyMiguel Dantas Cruz
Abstract: The regular army in colonial Brazil was simultaneously a tool of imperial policy (seen as a way to impose metropolitan will) and an institution that, like many others, integrated in its ranks, and in senior positions, settlers, sometimes disgruntled settlers. This article deals with this apparent ambiguity. It examines the prosopography of officers who served in late-eighteenth-century colonial Brazil, considering their origin, social standing, military experience and even political leanings. Its findings reveal an institution that, in spite of its imperial function and the looming internal tensions, seemed to have contributed to the cohesiveness of the Empire.
Bibliographical reference: Cruz, M. D. da (2020). The Portuguese Army in Late-Eighteenth-Century Brazil: A Colonial Elite or a Metropolitan Force? War & Society, 39:4, 234-255
An Openness to Experiment: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Anthropological Field Photography in Rural Southern Angola and its Archival Reusages
Kronos: Southern African HistoriesInês Ponte
Abstract
This article explores the afterlives of the photographic production by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941-2010), a Portuguese-born Angolan anthropologist who amidst the country’s long-lasting civil war (1975-2002) engaged with the Ovakuvale trans-humant shepherds dwelling in the semi-arid region of southern Angola. Through the 1990s, Carvalho used analogue photographic cameras to document his field-work among the Ovakuvale, and afterwards engaged in various experiments with the medium for ethnographic purposes. Departing from the current assemblage of Carvalho’s personal archive that remains after he passed away, I explore distinct photographic relations connected to public usages of his Ovakuvale images during his lifetime, to discuss the ways in which he articulated them through diverse expressive modes and ventures – such as watercolours, illustrated publications, temporary exhibitions and a theatre play. Offering the opportunity to surrender to a broad experimental practice that makes his overall Ovakuvale ethnography particularly revealing, I project through the current archival assemblage a comparative approach to the rationales guiding the presentation of his Ovakuvale field images, to discuss salient temporal relationships between his method to produce and later reuse these images in postcolonial times.
Keywords: Field Photography, civil war, memory, private archives, Angola
Full citation: Ponte, Ines, (2020) “An Openness to Experiment: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Anthropological Field Photography in Rural Southern Angola and its Archival Reusages“, Kronos: Southern African Histories, 46(1). DOI: 10.17159/2309-9585/2020/v46a11
Estado, “Privilégios” e Revoluções Ibéricas e Americanas
AlmanackNuno Gonçalo Monteiro
Abstract: Nos tempos que passam, ao menos quando estas linhas são escritas, a pandemia global convoca de uma forma inusitada a explicitação dos poderes, que se tornam mais visíveis por força das circunstâncias. Muitos exprimem as suas preocupações com o alargamento das atribuições do Estado nas condições do «estado de emergência», ao mesmo tempo que, nos grandes como nos pequenos países, se apreende a pluralidade, por vezes contraposta, dos polos de diversa escala geográfica que o conformam. De algum modo, regressa-se a questões com uma mais antiga genealogia intelectual, mas que sem dúvida tiveram um ciclo definidor no tempo dilatado das revoluções atlânticas e ibero-americanas, estas últimas todas estreitamente conectadas entre si.
Bibliographical reference: Monteiro, N. G. 82020). Estado, “Privilégios” e Revoluções Ibéricas e Americanas. Almanack, 24, ep00120
Uncrowned kings: rituals and ritual objects in eighteenth–nineteenth century Portuguese royal acclamation ceremonies
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoireIsabel Corrêa da Silva and Miguel Metelo de Seixas
Abstract: This article examines the royal acclamation ceremonies of the Portuguese crown in order to grasp the responsiveness of the institution of the monarchy and regime to the challenges of modernity throughout the delicate watershed period of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Portuguese Catholic and absolutist monarchy of the ancien régime had a strict protocol and a set of insignia of power that acted together at the moment of the acclamation and legitimation of each new king. The purpose of this research is to assess the adaptation and reinvention of these insignia and rituals according to the revolutionary demands of social change and secularization brought about by the turbulent period of the beginning of the nineteenth century: the French military invasions (1807–11); the departure of the royal family, court and administration to Brazil (1807); the liberal constitutional revolution (1820); and the civil war pitting liberals against absolutists (1832–34). The new constitutional monarchy that came out of this revolutionary flow faced many challenges of legitimacy, including the test of its capacity to create a modern royal imaginary updated to the cultural mindset of national and secular societies, and capable of bonding rulers with their people. The authors believe that the study of the acclamation ceremonies in the Portuguese constitutional monarchy can give us an accurate perspective on the quality of the symbolic image of the crown, therefore assessing the political efficiency of rituals as one of the structural aspects for institutional legitimization.
Bibliographical reference: Silva, I.C. da, Seixas, M.M.D. (2020). Uncrowned kings: rituals and ritual objects in eighteenth–nineteenth century Portuguese royal acclamation ceremonies. European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire
As pedras de Afaloicai: a arqueologia colonial e a autoridade de objetos ancestrais em Timor-Leste (2020)
Revista Memória em RedeRicardo Roque and Lúcio Sousa, 2020.
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Este artigo investiga as histórias cruzadas do conhecimento arqueológico, da autoridade científica e da autoridade indígena, no contexto de interações coloniais mediadas por objetos ancestrais, em Timor-Leste. Analisam-se diferentes concepções de poder e autoridade associadas a esses objetos, tendo por base um evento do passado colonial: a exibição ao antropólogo português António de Almeida, em 1957, de artefatos líticos pertencentes ao patrimônio lulik ancestral da casa de Soko Lai Mau Besi, Afaloicai, por seus guardiões indígenas autorizados. O artigo revisita este acontecimento e, combinando pesquisa de arquivo e trabalho de terreno, reflete sobre os modos de presença e ausência de conceitos, histórias e memórias indígenas nos registros do arquivo colonial.
https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/Memoria/article/view/19213
Full citation: R. Roque; L. Sousa, “As pedras de Afaloicai: a arqueologia colonial e a autoridade de objetos ancestrais em Timor-Leste”, Revista Memória em Rede, 12, 23, Jan/Jun.2020 , pp. 49-86.
Aboim, S., Vasconcelos, P. (2020). Migration after Empire. Postcolonial masculinities and the transnational dynamics of subalternity. Postcolonial Studies, Published online: 07 Dec 2020. DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2020.1846848.
Antunes, M. J. L. (2020). A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers’ narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola. History and Anthropology, Published online 02 Jul 2020. DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1786381. Link permanente.
Cruz, M. D. da (2020). The Portuguese Army in Late-Eighteenth-Century Brazil: A Colonial Elite or a Metropolitan Force? War & Society, 39:4, 234-255, DOI 10.1080/07292473.2020.1811468. Link permanente.
Domingos, N. (2020). L’urbanisation coloniale et la citoyenneté sportive. Le processus de « sportivisation » à Lourenço Marques, Mozambique. Histoire Urbaine, 57, 87-108. DOI 10.3917/rhu.057.0087. Link permanente.
Domingos, N. (2020). Eusébio, o lusotropicalismo e o globalização dos ídolos desportivos. In Fiolhais, C., Franco, J, E., Paiva, J. P. (Dir.), Cardoso, J. L., Fabião, C., Sousa, B. V. e. Antunes, C., Pinto, A. C. (Coord.), História Global de Portugal, pp. 625-631. [S.l.] : Círculo de Leitores. ISBN 978-972-42-5262-9. Link permanente.
Furtado, J. F., Monteiro, N. G. (2020). O Abade Raynal: Discursos e fontes sobre o Império Português. Algumas notas. In Roger Chartier, José Damião Rodrigues e Justino Magalhães (Eds.), Escritas e Cultura na Europa e no Atlântico Modernos, pp. 221-247. Lisboa: Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa / Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa. ISBN 978-989-8068-29-3. Link permanente.
Gomes, I. V. (2020). Women photographers in Angola And Mozambique (1909-1950): A history of an absence. In Newbury, D.a, Rizzo, L.b, Thomas, K. (Eds.), Women and photography in Africa: Creative practices and feminist challenges, pp. 62-80. Routledge. ISBN 978-1350-136-564.
Ladwig, P., Roque, R. (Eds.) (2020). States of Imitation: Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule (Studies in Social Analysis Series). Oxford and New York: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-78920-737-8.
Ladwig, P., Roque, R. (2020). Introduction: Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the State. In Ladwig, P., Roque, R. (Eds.), States of Imitation: Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule (Studies in Social Analysis Series). Oxford and New York: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-78920-737-8. Link permanente.
Ladwig, P., Roque, R. (2020). Postscript: The Risks and Failures of Imitation. In Ladwig, P., Roque, R. (Eds.), States of Imitation: Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule (Studies in Social Analysis Series). Oxford and New York: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-78920-737-8.
Matos, P. F. de (2020). Modos de fazer da antropologia colonial: a missão científica de Mendes Correia à Guiné Portuguesa (1945-1946). In Jorge, V. O. (Ed.), Modos de Fazer/ Ways of Making, pp. 167-180. Porto: CITCEM. ISBN 978-989-8970-23-7. DOI 10.21747/9789898970237/mod. Link permanente.
Monteiro, N. G. (2020). Estado, “Privilégios” e Revoluções Ibéricas e Americanas. Almanack, 24, ep00120, DOI 10.1590/2236-463324ep00120. Link permanente.
Monteiro, N. G. (2020). Criollos no Brasil colonial? Migrações, circulação das elites e identidades sociais no Império dos Braganças, Luisa Feal de Faria et al. (Ed.), Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Manuel Braga da Cruz, 305-320. Lisboa: Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Monteiro, N. G. (2020). Os nomes de família em Portugal: algumas notas. In El giro de la familia: Homenaje historiográfico a Francisco Chacón Jiménez, pp 37-55. Murcia: Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia. ISBN 978-84178-6546. Link permanente.
Pereira, M. S., Nascimento, W. (2020). Etnicidades e os Outros em contextos coloniais africanos: reflexões sobre as encruzilhadas entre História e Antropologia. In Marise de Santana, Edson Dias Ferreira, Wasginhton Nascimento (Eds), Luanda & Bahia: Identidades e etnicidades em contextos contemporâneos. Edições Áfricas. ISBN 978-85-922981-0-4.
Ponte, I. (2020). An Openness to Experiment: Ruy Duarte de Carvalhos Anthropological Field Photography in Rural Southern Angola and its Archival Reusages. Kronos, 46 (1), pp. 243-265.
Roque, R. (2020). Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and the Government of Savagery in Colonial East Timor. In Ladwig, P., Roque, R. (Eds.), States of Imitation: Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule (Studies in Social Analysis Series). Oxford and New York: Berghahn. ISBN 978-1-78920-737-8.
Roque, R. (2020). [Review of] Paul Turnbull. Science, Museums, and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia. Isis: a journal of History of Science Society, vol 111 (1), 177-178. Link permanente.
Roque, R. (2020). [Review of] Pamila Gupta. Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World: History and Ethnography. The American Historical Review, 125 (3), 1125–1126. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa144. Link permanente.
Roque, R. (2020). An Analytical Microscope: Headhunting and Colonialism, Ten Years After [Book Forum/Debat autor d’un livre]. Monde(s) Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 17(1), pp. 188-198.
Roque, R. (2020). The Racialization of the Indigeneity of Others. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 14, 1-7 DOI 10.1215/18752160-8698584. Link permanente.
Roque, R. (2020). The decolonizer iconoclast. A commentary. In Anne Storch, Ana Deumert and Nick Shepherd (eds.), Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes, pp. 212-220. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198793205.
Roque, R. (2020). The name of the wild man: colonial arbiru in East Timor. In Storch, A., Nassenstein, N. (Eds.), Swearing and Cursing: Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective, pp. 209-235. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 978-1-5015-1724-2. DOI 10.1515/9781501511202-010. Link permanente.
Roque, R., Sousa, L. (2020). As pedras de Afaloicai: a arqueologia colonial a autoridade de objetos ancestrais em Timor-Leste [The Stones of Afaloicai: Colonial Archaeology and the Authority of Ancient Objects]. Revista Memória em Rede, v.12, n.23, pp. 49-86. DOI 10.15210/RMR.V12I23. Link permanente.
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