TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘It's Dangerous, but these are my People’: The Assimilation of a Catholic Priest among the Meto of Oecussi
AU - Rose, Michael
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Originally from Pennsylvania, Father Richard Daschbach has lived among the Atoni Pah Meto of West Timor since 1967. In this paper I consider Richard's ministry in the context of the literature on Austronesian cosmological systems, focusing on how his work, though defined by characteristically Meto notions of authority, spirituality and precedence, is also what Collier and Ong have described as a ‘global assemblage’. Tsing's concept of ‘friction’ is used as a way of understanding how both local and notionally universal forces within this encounter have been energised and transformed through their accidental and sometimes uneasy proximity.
AB - Originally from Pennsylvania, Father Richard Daschbach has lived among the Atoni Pah Meto of West Timor since 1967. In this paper I consider Richard's ministry in the context of the literature on Austronesian cosmological systems, focusing on how his work, though defined by characteristically Meto notions of authority, spirituality and precedence, is also what Collier and Ong have described as a ‘global assemblage’. Tsing's concept of ‘friction’ is used as a way of understanding how both local and notionally universal forces within this encounter have been energised and transformed through their accidental and sometimes uneasy proximity.
U2 - 10.1080/14442213.2015.1116594
DO - 10.1080/14442213.2015.1116594
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 66
EP - 82
JO - The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
JF - The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
IS - 1
ER -