Island Encounters : : Timor-Leste from the Outside In.

• Superior document: Monographs in Anthropology Series
• Author: Palmer, Lisa.
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Monographs in Anthropology Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 pages)

Island Encounters is a narrative of Timor shaped by a journey from the outside in.

Table of Contents

Intro -- List of Maps -- Map 1: Map of island Timor and journey from west to east. -- Map 2: Location of Lookeu, one of the five kingdoms of Koba Lima. -- Map 3: Wai Lia Bere's asserted underground flows and spring connections. -- List of Photographs -- Photo 1: Tais purchased in Dili, 1997. -- Photo 2: Sunrise at Jaco. -- Photo 3: Rice fields and mountains in the kingdom of Lookeu. -- Photo 4: View from Biboki highlands towards Oecusse. -- Photo 5: The main palace at Tam Kesi. -- Photo 6: Honeycomb in the megaliths of Tam Kesi. -- Photo 7: Zeca and puppy with friends in the rice fields. -- Photo 8: Noefefan Bridge, Oecusse. -- Photo 9: Monument to the Portuguese arrival, Lifau. -- Photo 10: Liurai Antonio da Costa outside his Pante Makasar house (with author). -- Photo 11: Rosa making earthenware pots. -- Photo 12: Oecusse's main international border. -- Photo 13: Graves of the former king of Ambeno, Joao da Cruz, and his wife, Maria da Cruz. -- Photo 14: East Timorese 'garden house' in Atambua village. -- Photo 15: The palace of Uma Metan Lookeu. -- Photo 16: Ritual inside Uma Metan Lookeu. -- Photo 17: A laku begins his climb. -- Photo 18: The black stone basket offering. -- Photo 19: Honey harvest fire blooms. -- Photo 20: Straining the honey. -- Photo 21: Flag house with painted Australian flag in Balibo. -- Photo 22: View from Balibo Fort. -- Photo 23: The channel between Jaco (Tortina) and mainland Timor‑Leste. -- Photo 24: Women sewing inside Boneca de Atauro. -- Photo 25: Quin and Jose. -- Photo 26: Atauro coastline. -- Photo 27: Cape Bondura coastline, Baucau. -- Photo 28: Maria and her medicine cabinet. -- Photo 29: Buffalo and herder on the Baucau plateau. -- Photo 30: Kabu bee and rice farmers maintaining the irrigated water channels. -- Photo 31: Wai Lia spring pool and government pump station. -- Photo 32: Main road, Darasula.

Photo 33: Simiao and final water blessing. -- Photo 34: Offering inside Wai Lia Bere cave. -- Photo 35: Simiao's father at medicinal tree. -- Photo 36: Rice harvest ritual offering. -- Photo 37: Wai Daba rice fields with Mt Ariana in background (Old Man at right). -- Photo 38: Tia Martina carries out her part of the rice harvest offering. -- Photo 39: Lunch in Noyti's rice fields. -- Photo 40: Madalena and Golden. -- Photo 41: The purchased pig. -- Photo 42: The 50-cent swing beach. -- Photo 43: Students at Iralalaru and the Irasiqiru river (Demetrio speaking with Senhor Hermingildo standing at rear). -- Photo 44: The Old Lady in her rice fields. -- Photo 45: Januario's clinic with Salvador and his father. -- Photo 46: Palmira pounding forest medicine. -- Photo 47: Collected bones and soil in their sarongs. -- Photo 48: Making the burial coffins. -- Photo 49: The 23 grave compartments. -- Photo 50: Carrying the grasses into the house reconstruction site. -- Photo 51: The parent house reconstruction site with Matebian mountains in the background. -- Photo 52: Offerings to the sacra. -- Photo 53: The Old Man walking through rice fields. -- Photo 54: View from our house. -- Photo 55: Cooking katupa by the kitchen. -- Photo 56: The Old Man carrying out a ritual at the Ocabai spring source. -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Not-So-Wild West -- 2. Enclave Society -- 3. Back Across the Border -- 4. Courting Bees in a Divided Land -- 5. The Politics of Lulik -- 6. Small Island Sojourns -- 7. Underground Flows -- 8. Ritual and Recovery -- 9. Life in the Rice Fields -- 10. 'The Geographical Tour' -- 11. Carrying the Name Forward -- 12. Opening the Paths to Healing -- 13. New Beginnings -- Epilogue -- Glossary of Language and Terms -- Audiovisual Resources -- Further Reading.