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      A voz dos bandos: colectivos de justiça e ritos da palavra portuguesa em Timor-Leste colonial

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          Este artigo examina as relações entre o discurso da justiça e a prática do ritual nos bandos do governo colonial português em Timor Leste, entre a segunda metade do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do século XX. Os bandos consistiam em ordens e instruções de comando emanadas pelo governador português em Díli, e comunicadas de forma cerimonial por oficiais às populações dos diversos reinos timorenses dispersos pelo país. Bandos eram um instrumento por excelência de governação colonial dos assuntos indígenas, servindo para arbitrar conflitos, punir transgressões e, em geral, instituir realidades no mundo timorense. Contudo, esta instituição assumiu igualmente uma singular expressão nos usos timorenses, servindo bandos para comunicar também as ordens de autoridades tradicionais, os liurais. O artigo acompanha as variações coloniais e indígenas que os bandos adquiriram em Timor Leste, conceptualizando-os enquanto colectivos de justiça. Ao considerar assim os bandos como colectivos - formações heterogéneas em que elementos linguísticos e não linguísticos se combinam na produção de efeitos de poder sobre as populações - o artigo propõe uma via conceptual alternativa às perspectivas linguísticas e literárias de análise do discurso colonial.

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          This article examines the relations between juridical discourse and ritual practice in the bandos issued by the Portuguese colonial government in East Timor between the second-half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Bandos consisted of orders and instructions of command issued by the Portuguese governor in Dilly and ceremonially transmitted by colonial officers to the populations of the various Timorese kingdoms. Bandos were a principal tool of colonial governance with regards to indigenous matters. They were used by the Portuguese to arbitrate conflicts, punish transgressions and, generally, to institute realities in the Timorese world. However, this institution also came to acquire a singular expression in the indigenous cultures, such that the Timorese traditional authorities, the liurais, also used it to communicate their own instructions and commands. The essay conceptualizes bandos as colectives of justice and explores their colonial and indigenous variants. In thus considering the bandos as collectives - heterogeneous associations in which both linguistic and non-linguistic elements combine to produce power effects upon the populations - the article proposes a conceptual alternative to linguistic and literary perspectives in the analysis of colonial discourse.

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                Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social - PPGAS-Museu Nacional, da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro )
                0104-9313
                December 2012
                : 18
                : 3
                : 563-594
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                [1 ] University of Sydney Australia
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                S0104-93132012000300006
                10.1590/S0104-93132012000300006
                be858c5a-6fd6-44cb-97e6-79ce7b818799

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Bandos,Colonial Discourse,Justice,Ritual,East Timor,History,XIXth-XXth Centuries,Discurso colonial,Justiça,Timor Leste,História,Séculos XIX-XX

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