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Economic diversity in contemporary Timor-Leste /

Analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Silva, Kelly (Editor ), Palmer, Lisa (Editor ), Cunha, Teresa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Leiden] : Leiden University Press, [2023]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Kelly Silva, Lisa Palmer and Teresa Cunha
  • Glimpses of the colonial economy
  • The colonial bazaar in 'Portuguese Timor': the taming of the 'savage marketers' / Lúcio Sousa
  • Indexing social space: a marketplace in Timor-Leste / David Hicks
  • Flirting with Ford, reverting to race? Housing, urban planning and the making of an economic and social order in Portuguese Timor in trans-colonial perspective, 1959-1963 / Alex Grainger
  • Local economic dynamics
  • On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste / Susanna Barnes
  • The serimónia network: economic mobilisation through rituals in the hamlet of Faulara, Liquiçá / Alberto Fidalgo-Castro and Enrique Alonso-Población
  • Household decision-making processes and family resources: a case study from Viqueque / Josh Trindade and Ivete de Oliveira
  • Gift economy and the acknowledgement of debt: (on) living and eating with 'mystical' actors in Timorese houses / Renata Nogueira da Silva
  • The work of women in Eluli and land economies in Timor-Leste / Teresa Cunha and Mina Bessa
  • Economic transformations
  • Land and diet under pressure: the impacts of Suai Supply Base in Kamanasa Kingdom / Brunna Crespi
  • The socio-cultural benefits of emerging market-based instruments for carbon in Timor-Leste / Lisa Palmer and Sue Jackson
  • China's engagement in Timor-Leste's economy / Laurentina 'Mica' Barreto Soares
  • Migrant work and homecoming: experiences of Timorese seasonal workers / Ann Wigglesworth and Abel Boavida dos Santos
  • Refashioning Fataluku origin houses / Andrew McWilliam
  • The frente ekonomika (economic front): Timorese perspectives on seasonal work in Australia / Michael Rose.