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SUMMARY:Incorporating the Foreign: The Social Meaning of Imported Goods in Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste
LOCATION:Room 1.505
DESCRIPTION:This panel draws attention to the role of material culture in s
 ocial interactions and in historical practices in eastern Indonesia and Tim
 or-Leste. We are specifically interested in imported objects and the ways p
 articular categories of foreign objects become a ‘social currency’. To spea
 k with Arjun Appadurai (1986), certain things have social life – but how ca
 n we understand this life of things? What things appeal enough to gain soci
 al life in the receiving communities? What are the results/consequences of 
 the social lives of imported things?\n\nWorking in a European-Amerindian co
 ntext, the historian Marcy Norton has discussed potential processes behind 
 the transfer of objects across the Atlantic Ocean (Norton 2012). She argues
  that there might be universal elements that make a category of objects des
 irable to humans. There might also exist convergences between cultures whic
 h allows an object to be valued and attributed meaning in the same way in b
 oth contexts. Marshall Sahlins (1999) has labelled a third process ‘commodi
 ty indigenization’. In this case, the receiving culture assimilates objects
  on its own terms, providing meaning according to its pre-existing conceptu
 al world. Another possibility is that meanings travel with objects: in this
  option the ‘giving’ culture’s use and practices pertaining to an object mi
 grates with the object. In actuality, some or all these processes will coex
 ist. The point is that things and meanings, may, but do not necessarily, tr
 avel together.\n\nThere is rich evidence in the literature for the importan
 ce of foreign material culture in eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste, hence 
 the focus on this region. The interdisciplinary panel brings together schol
 ars from history, anthropology and human geography, presenting case studies
  that illuminate significant aspects of foreign objects and foreign approac
 hes to natural resources.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/incorporating-the-foreign-the-social-meaning-of-imported-goods-in-eastern-indonesia-and-timor-leste
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