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Indigenous Spirits and Global Aspirations in a Southeast Asian Borderland : Timor-Leste's Oecussi Enclave /

Over the past 40 years, life in Timor-Leste has changed radically. Before 1975 most of the population lived in highland villages, spoke local languages, and rarely used money. Today many have moved to peri-urban lowland settlements, and even those whose lives remain dominated by customary ways under...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rose, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontiers imagined, frontiers observed
  • Body and belief in Timor-Leste
  • The ruin and return of Markus Sulu
  • Angry spirits in the special economic zone
  • Stones, saints and the 'sacred family'
  • Meto kingship and environmental governance
  • Ritual speech and education in Kutete.