The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste /

The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste / / ed. by Lia Kent, Rui Feijo.

During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste, thousands of people died or were killed in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed at the time. Since the country attained independence in 1999, families have consequently devoted significant time, effort an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Blau, Soren,
Boarccaech, Alessandro,
Damaledo, Andrey,
Graça Feijó, Rui,
Grenfell, Damian,
Kent, Lia,
Kumala Sakti, Victoria,
Leach, Michael,
Matos Viegas, Susana de,
Myrttinen, Henri,
Roll, Kate,
Rothschild, Amy,
Traube, Elizabeth G.,
Winch, Bronwyn,
HerausgeberIn:
Feijo, Rui,
Kent, Lia,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I Ancestors, Martyrs and Heroes
  • 1 Ancestors and Martyrs in Timor-Leste
  • 2 Remembering the Martyrs of National Liberation in Timor-Leste
  • Part II The Dead in Everyday Life
  • 3 Spirits Live Among Us
  • 4 ‘Sempre la’o ho ita’
  • 5 Unfulfilled Peace
  • 6 The Politics of Loss and Restoration
  • 7 Death Across the Border and the Prospects of Improved People to People Relationships
  • 8 Working for the Living and the Dead
  • PART III The Dead and the Nation-State
  • 9 Remembering the Dead in Post-Independence Timor-Leste
  • 10 Gender, Agency and the (In)Visibility of the Dead and the Wounded
  • 11 On the Politics of Memory
  • 12 Gathering the Dead, Imagining the State?
  • 13 Selling Names
  • Index

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