@article{oai:stars.repo.nii.ac.jp:00009490, author = {森田, 良成 and MORITA, Yoshinari}, journal = {人間文化研究, Journal of Humanities Research,St.Andrew's University}, month = {Feb}, note = {This paper is structured around a series of events the author experienced during his fieldwork on the island of Timor while trying to cross a national border that was newly established after the independence of Timor-Leste from Indonesia. The people who inhabit the area adjacent to the border on both the Indonesian and the Timor- Leste sides have devised over the years numerous methods to cross it and easily go back and forth, skillfully using both legal and illegal means. The author, on the other hand, being a foreigner, simply could not do the same.  The purpose of this paper is to reconfirm - not from the point of view of the people living there, but from the experiences of the author himself - the fact that an international border of a modern state is a social construct. And, at the same time, we shall see that in the framework of a fieldwork conducted by a cultural anthropologist, the position of the fieldworker and the position of those around him can never be the same, that he can never behave like them, no matter how hard he tries. Having established the above, we shall draw attention to the vast amount of help from all kinds of people an anthropologist - a stranger from a strange land - requires to do his work during the limited time he has in the field.}, pages = {175--193}, title = {国境を越えるということ : ティモール島国境のリアリティと曖昧さ}, volume = {16}, year = {2022}, yomi = {モリタ, ヨシナリ} }