maubere

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レジスタンスの戦士たちは 自らを Maubere asuwain と呼んだというが ([@mcwilliam-traube-intro] p.15) Mambai 語で「山の人」くらいの意味らしい。 「マウベレ」 maubere はマンバイ語である ([@soares-referendum] p.60)。 (ポルトガル人によって 使われた蔑称、 「田舎もん」くらいの意味らしい。)

[@traube-planting_the_flag] の情報を以下にはる。 「ごんべ」みたいな感じだったのかしらん。 ポルトガル人だけでなく、 中国人 China がつかっていた、というのが 興味深い。

In 1974, when leaders of the Fretilin [ FRETILIN ] nationalist party in what was then Portuguese Timor devised the symbol of the ‘Maubere people', there was more than a little ventriloquising involved. Fretilin was founded in the wake of the overthrow of the Caetano regime, by educated Timorese elites in the coastal capital of Dili, many of them recently returned from university study abroad. The Maubere symbol coded the leadership’s claim to speak on behalf of the masses of poor, uneducated rural folk who inhabited the mountainous central interior of Timor. The term was derived from an ethnic stereotype and had a mild anti-colonial tone. Maubere or Mau Bere is a common masculine personal name among Mambai people who occupy the mountains of central Timor-Leste. During the colonial period, the Mambai had acquired a reputation as the most ‘backward’ (atrasado) ethnic group in the province, and ‘Maubere’ was used (primarily by Portuguese and Chinese) as a condescending term of reference and address. In taking the Mambai as archetypes of the masses they sought to mobilise, Fretilin leaders claimed insider status by valorizing what the colonial rulers had denigrated.