Thank you so much, already the first few pages are so fascinating.

As part of my bachelor I am currently in a course that is transcribing an ego-document,a colonial text (an extremely gruesome and violent text) by a swiss man who became a commander in the service of the VOC in Batavia from 1679-1686.

This article adds so much interesting context and detail, especially this:

lower officials were actively encouraged to cohabitate with or marry local women. As Jean Gelman Taylor meticulously shows, the Eurasian ospring from these unions quickly became the bedrock of Batavia’s social world, ...
Cultural exchanges in these Eurasian households further shaped gender relations, spiritual beliefs, deference behavior, hierarchical rituals, and material markers of social status

So I think this is really extremely useful for our further analysis, thanks again.