| Description |
1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I: Ancestors, martyrs and heroes -- Ancestors and martyrs in Timor-Leste / Susana de Matos Viegas -- Remembering the martyrs of National Liberation in Timor-Leste / Michael Leach -- Part II: The dead in everyday life -- Spirits live among us mythology, the hero's journey, and the supernatural world in a community in Atauro / Alessandro Boarccaech -- ̀Sempre la'o ho ita' ancestral omnipresence and the protection of the living in Timor-Leste / Bronwyn Winch -- Unfulfilled peace death and the limits of liberalism in Timor-Leste / Damian Grenfell -- The politics of loss and restoration massive bad death in the Oecussi Highlands / Victoria Kumala Sakti -- Death across the border and the prospects of improved people to people relationships / Audrey Damaledo -- Working for the living and the dead challenges associated with personal identification from skeletal remains in Timor-Leste / Soren Blau -- Part III: The dead and the nation-state -- Remembering the dead in post-independence Timor-Leste victims or martyrs? / Amy Rothschild -- Gender, agency and the (in)visibility of the dead and the wounded / Henri Myrttinen -- On the politics of memory cult of martyrs, contested memories and social status / Rui Graga Feijo -- Gathering the dead, imagining the state? Examining the work of commissions for the recovery of human remains / Lia Kent -- Selling names the ̀material dimension' of state recognition of martyrs in Timor-Leste / Kate Roll |
| Summary |
"During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow the required death rituals to be performed. Since the nation's independence, families and communities have invested considerable time, effort and resources in fulfilling their obligations to the dead. These obligations are imbued with urgency because the dead are ascribed agency and can play a benevolent or malevolent role in the lives of the living. These grassroots initiatives run, sometimes critically, in parallel with official programs that seek to transform particular dead bodies into public symbols of heroism, sacrifice and nationhood. The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste focuses on the dynamic interplay between the potent presence of the dead in everyday life and their symbolic usefulness to the state. It underlines how the dead shape relationships amongst families, communities and the nation-state, and open an important window into -- are in fact pivotal to -- processes of state and nation formation."--Back cover |
| Analysis |
The dead |
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Timor-Leste |
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ancestors |
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heroes |
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identity narratives |
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imagining nation and state |
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martyrs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Timor-Leste
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Death -- Social aspects -- Timor-Leste
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Death -- Social aspects
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Timor-Leste
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kent, Lia, editor
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Feijó, Rui, editor
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| ISBN |
9789048544448 |
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9048544440 |
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