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.