Maria Johanna Schouten
Prior to retirement, I was on the staff of the Department of Sociology, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal. I have academic qualifications (MA) in Anthropology and History, and a PhD in Social and Cultural Sciences conferred by VU University, Amsterdam. At the University of Beira Interior I obtained the degree of «Agregada» in Sociology. For almost half a century, a major part of my research activities has focused on Southeast Asia. This included anthropological fieldwork in Minahasa (northern Sulawesi, Indonesia) and research of historic documents, in combination with the study of Dutch and Portuguese colonialism with special attention for eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
Disciplinary fields: Anthropology and History.
PhD in Social and Cultural Sciences from Vrije Universiteit (VU University) in Amsterdam (1993).
Geographical Areas of Research
Indonesia
Malaysia
Timor-Leste
Areas of Research
Colonialism and post-colonialism
Ethnography
Political processes
Contacts between cultures
Gender issues
Publications
2025 Minahasa around 1850: Plans for reform during Eduard Douwes Dekker’s term as secretary of the Residency of Manado. Archipel – Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien 109. Pp. 61-84. https://doi.org/10.4000/144xn
2022 Documentos pré-1975 sobre Timor: antigos, mas não antiquados. in: Ricardo Roque (org.) Timor Etnográfico. Etnografias coloniais portuguesas no século XX. Pp. 357-378. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/12356.
2019 Memories of faraway visitors to Southeast Asia: The ‘Portuguese fort’ in Amurang, Iluminuras, Porto Alegre, 20, 50: 9-30. https://doi.org/10.22456/1984-1191.94750.
2018 A etnografia nalgumas expedições científicas em Timor no século XIX. [in: Vicente Paulino (org.) Somos arquivos da memória. Realidades históricas e sócio-antropológicas sobre Timor-Leste. Dili: pp. 165-180. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/6606.