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The colonial ethnological line: Timor and the racial geography of the Malay Archipelago
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This article examines the connected histories of racial science and colonial geography
in Island Southeast Asia. By focusing on the island of Timor, it explores colonial
boundaries as modes of arranging racial classifications, and racial typologies as
forms of articulating political geography. Portuguese physical anthropologist
António Mendes Correia’s work on the ethnology of East Timor is examined as
expressive of these productive connections. Correia’s classificatory work ingeniously
blended political geography and racial taxonomy. Between 1916 and 1945, mainly
based on data from the Portuguese enclave of Oecussi and Ambeno, he claimed a distinct
Malayan racial type for the whole colony of ‘Portuguese Timor’. Over the years
he developed an anthropogeographical theory that simultaneously aimed to reclassify
East Timor and to revise the racial cartography of the Malay Archipelago, including
Wallace’s famous ethnological line.
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Timor Racial classifications Colonialism
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Roque, R. (2018). The colonial ethnological line: Timor and the racial geography of the Malay Archipelago. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 49 (3), pp. 387-409
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Cambridge University Press