The dead as ancestors, martyrs, and heroes in Timor-Leste / edited by Lia Kent and Rui Graça Feijo....
The dead as ancestors, martyrs, and heroes in Timor-Leste / edited by Lia Kent and Rui Graça Feijo....
The dead as ancestors, martyrs, and heroes in Timor-Leste / edited by Lia Kent and Rui Graça Feijo. [electronic resource]
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Publisher
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
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Language
English
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Physical content
1 online resource (340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content type
text
Media type
computer
Carrier type
online resource
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 ‘Se...
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Publisher
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Date Published
2020.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- The dead
- Timor-Leste
- ancestors
- heroes
- identity narratives
- imagining nation and state
- martyrs
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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 obligatio...
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The dead as ancestors, martyrs, and heroes in Timor-Leste / edited by Lia Kent and Rui Graça Feijo. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
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94-6372-431-1
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74VKaz0a3LZg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0a3LZg
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ISBN
90-485-4444-0
DDC
393.095987
MMS ID
991024402509202626
