This essay explores the spectral presence of Si Pai, a colonial figure from the Ottoman Empire, during postconflict research in Aceh, Indonesia. I found the uncanny in the emergences over time of the spectral presence of Si Pai, linked to the presence of my friend Begoña Aretxaga, who had written about cipayo in a book we dedicated to her memory. The meanings of Si Pai are analyzed, using Bakhtin's writing on the history of language and Aretxaga's analysis drawing on Abraham and Torok. The meanings of sipahi flow across centuries of Ottoman and Persian and colonial military histories, and through webs of emotion and experiences of violence, where soldiers employed or enslaved by Empires, including those from afar, British and Dutch, wreak havoc on civilian life, plundering and committing evil, before finding their way in Aceh. Research in postconflict Aceh provides the ethnographic core; yet, this essay weaves a tale of the uncanny through a journey of anthropological and historical inquiry and uncanny appearances.

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Si Pai的光谱呈现：BegoñaAretxaga的Cipayo和Aceh在2008年亚齐的Sipai经历

本文探讨了在印度尼西亚亚齐发生的冲突后研究中，奥斯曼帝国殖民人物Si Pai的频谱存在。随着时间的推移，我发现Si Pai的出现与我的朋友BegoñaAretxaga的出现有关，这是一种怪诞的感觉，后者在我们献给她的书中写了有关cipayo的文章。的含义姒牌进行了分析，利用语言和Aretxaga的分析亚伯拉罕和Torok绘画史巴赫金的写作。sipahi的含义流传了数百年的奥斯曼帝国，波斯和殖民地军事历史，并通过情感和暴力经历的网络，在帝国受雇或奴役的士兵，包括远方，英国和荷兰的士兵，对平民生活造成了严重破坏，掠夺和犯罪，在亚齐找到自己的路之前。冲突后亚齐的研究提供了人种学的核心。然而，本文是通过人类学和历史探究以及奇异的出现编织了一个奇异的故事。