Indigenous spirits and global aspirations in a southeast Asian borderland : Timor-Leste's Oecussi enclave /

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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 into urbanized lowlands settlements, and even those whose lives remain dominated by customary ways und...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rose, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Indigenous peoples > Timor-Leste.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social, group or collective psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Ethnopsychology.
Civilization
Indigenous peoples
Timor-Leste > Civilization.
Timor-Leste > History.
Timor-Leste
Anthropology, narrative ethnography, Timor-Leste, Indonesian, borderlines.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • A note on language
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Frontiers imagined, frontiers observed
  • 2 Body and belief in Timor-Leste
  • 3 The ruin and return of Markus Sulu
  • 4 Angry spirits in the special economic zone
  • 5 Stones, saints and the 'Sacred Family'
  • 6 Meto kingship and environmental governance
  • 7 Ritual speech and education in Kutete
  • Concluding thoughts: encounter, change, experience
  • Selected Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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