UID:
almafu_9959848440502883
Format:
1 online resource (340 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
90-485-4444-0
Content:
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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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List of Figures --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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Part I Ancestors, Martyrs and Heroes --
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1 Ancestors and Martyrs in Timor-Leste --
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2 Remembering the Martyrs of National Liberation in Timor-Leste --
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Part II The Dead in Everyday Life --
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3 Spirits Live Among Us --
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4 ‘Sempre la’o ho ita’ --
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5 Unfulfilled Peace --
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6 The Politics of Loss and Restoration --
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7 Death Across the Border and the Prospects of Improved People to People Relationships --
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8 Working for the Living and the Dead --
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PART III The Dead and the Nation-State --
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9 Remembering the Dead in Post-Independence Timor-Leste --
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10 Gender, Agency and the (In)Visibility of the Dead and the Wounded --
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11 On the Politics of Memory --
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12 Gathering the Dead, Imagining the State? --
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13 Selling Names --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 94-6372-431-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048544448
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048544448/type/BOOK
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