Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies

Stefan Halikowski Smith, Ph.D. (2001) in History and Civilisation, European University Institute, is Lecturer in History at Swansea University. His specialisation is Portuguese overseas expansion in the early modern period, both publishing widely and lecturing on this topic at Brown University, Rhode Island. His most recent edited collection entitled Portugal Índico: Essays on the history of the Portuguese presence in South Asia came out as a Special Issue of Itinerario in 2007.

• Note on SpellingList of Figures1. Introduction: a world of creolization2. ‘People on the move’: Seventeenth century population movements in the Portuguese Indies3. The rise and fall of Portuguese Makassar4. No obvious home: the flight of the Portuguese ‘tribe’ from Makassar in the 1660s5. From contact to settlement in South-East Asia: a history of mercenaries and interlopers6. ‘O campo português’: The Portuguese quarter in Ayutthaya in the wake of the Makassarese diaspora7. The development of the presence of the Catholic church in Ayutthaya8. ‘Those (…) who occupy the lowest category here’. The social relegation, but survival, of the Portuguese ‘tribe’9. ‘Living great after the fashion of the country’: Comparisons with Portuguese in neighboring kingdoms10. Unpublished depictions of Portuguese in Thai and Burmese temple murals11. ‘All that the French Bishops wish is to see us leave’: Religious disputes in South-East Asia between Portuguese Jesuits and French Missionaires Étrangères de Paris12. ConclusionDocumentary annexesBibliographyIndex

"[...] Halikowski-Smith's work should be highly recommended to students and speialists who wish to understand the continued presence of the Portuguese in Southeast Asia and their creolization process throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." - Sim H. Teddy, in: Anais de História de Além-Mar, No. 12 (2011), 387-388 pp"Stefan Halikowski Smith intends to make a further contribution by presenting a theoretical argument about the nature of the Portuguese presence in Southeast Asia, and an analysis of the Portuguese community in Ayutthaya. This is is an ambitious project with important ramifications for the study of the Portuguese in Asia." - Liam Matthew Brockey, Michigan State University, in: Luso-Brazilian Review, 50:2, pp. 146 - 148"[...] [T]he contribution of Halikowsky Smith for the study of creolization in the Indian Ocean, and in particular of the Portuguese presence in Ayutthaya, is undoubtedly important, not only by the thorough study—and still little explored by Portuguese historiography—but by its own comparative approach, essential to the understanding of the complex population movements in the Indian ocean following the degradation of Portuguese India starting in the 1620s." - Paulo Teodoro de Matos, Portuguese Catholic University, in: InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies Vol. 2 (2013), pp. 145 - 149