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The death of the Arbiru: mythic praxis and the apotheosis of officer Duarte
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This chapter explores colonial historicity at the juncture of Portuguese
and Timorese understandings of the pasto At the core of my inquiry
is a tragic incident during the so-called "pacification campaigns" promoted
by Governor Celestino da Silva in the late nineteenth century:
the death of Portuguese alferes (sublieutenant) Francisco Duarte,
lmown also by his Tetum name Arbiru, on 17 July 1899. ln July that
year, Duarte and his army were laying siege to the people of the Atabai
kingdom, who refused to pay vassalage to Portugal and submit to the
governor's authority. The Atabai people sought refuge inside the caves
of Bui Kari, a rocky hill in the hinterland of Atabai, off the north
coast of East Timor. From Bui Kari, men, women, children, and elderly
fought fiercely against the invaders without giving up. On 17 July, in
the course of this siege, Atabai warriors killed the Portuguese commander,
Sublieutenant Duarte. His body was then retrieved by the
Portuguese and taken to Dili to be buried in the Santa Cruz cemetery.
What happened at the moment of his death; how, where, by whom,
Duarte was killed; what happened afterward; and how the Timorese
and, particularly, the Atabai people behaved after the officer fell dead
became the stuff of legend.
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Timor-Leste Colonial history
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Roque, R. (2019). The death of the Arbiru: mythic praxis and the apotheosis of officer Duarte. In Ricardo Roque and Elizabeth Traube, ed., Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste, pp. 93-130. New York and Oxford: Berghahn