Island encounters : Timor-Leste from the outside in /
Palmer, Lisa, 1973-
Island encounters : Timor-Leste from the outside in / Timor-Leste from the outside in Lisa Palmer. - 1 online resource (xix, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color) - Monographs in anthropology series . - Monographs in anthropology series. .
The not-so-wild west -- Enclave society -- Back across the border -- Courting bees in a divided land --The politics of Lulik -- Small island sojourns -- Underground flows -- Ritual and recovery -- Life in the rice fields -- 'The geographical tour' -- Carrying the name forward -- Opening the paths to healing -- New beginnings.
Island Encounters is a narrative of Timor shaped by a journey from the outside inches Incorporating the author's experiences from more than two decades of involvement with Timor-Leste and, more particularly, the months she spent travelling with her family from west to east in 2018, Palmer traces paths redolent in longing and learning, belonging and bewilderment, courage and conviction to tell of an island divided by colonialism and conflict. The book's themes shuttle back and forth across the island, weaving together the past, present and future in deeply felt histories and personal stories that create the shared fabric of Timorese people's lives. Offering a counterpoint to modernising development narratives, Island Encounters tells of people's quiet determination to maintain their relationships between their lands, waters, traditions and each other. By foregrounding the ways in which ancestral pathways and cultural politics inform and course through everyday life on island Timor, Palmer reveals the richness of the rituals and customary practices that underpin Timorese lives and the lives of those entwined with them. And, all along the way, Island Encounters shows how Timor and its diverse peoples are working with, and re-working, confounding and being confounded by, the ever-desirous heart of development.
9781760464516 1760464511
22573/ctv1z9smcm JSTOR
Travel.
Timor-Leste--Description and travel.
Timor-Leste--Social life and customs.
Timor-Leste--Social conditions.
Timor-Leste.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS649.4 / .P36 2021
915.987
Island encounters : Timor-Leste from the outside in / Timor-Leste from the outside in Lisa Palmer. - 1 online resource (xix, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color) - Monographs in anthropology series . - Monographs in anthropology series. .
The not-so-wild west -- Enclave society -- Back across the border -- Courting bees in a divided land --The politics of Lulik -- Small island sojourns -- Underground flows -- Ritual and recovery -- Life in the rice fields -- 'The geographical tour' -- Carrying the name forward -- Opening the paths to healing -- New beginnings.
Island Encounters is a narrative of Timor shaped by a journey from the outside inches Incorporating the author's experiences from more than two decades of involvement with Timor-Leste and, more particularly, the months she spent travelling with her family from west to east in 2018, Palmer traces paths redolent in longing and learning, belonging and bewilderment, courage and conviction to tell of an island divided by colonialism and conflict. The book's themes shuttle back and forth across the island, weaving together the past, present and future in deeply felt histories and personal stories that create the shared fabric of Timorese people's lives. Offering a counterpoint to modernising development narratives, Island Encounters tells of people's quiet determination to maintain their relationships between their lands, waters, traditions and each other. By foregrounding the ways in which ancestral pathways and cultural politics inform and course through everyday life on island Timor, Palmer reveals the richness of the rituals and customary practices that underpin Timorese lives and the lives of those entwined with them. And, all along the way, Island Encounters shows how Timor and its diverse peoples are working with, and re-working, confounding and being confounded by, the ever-desirous heart of development.
9781760464516 1760464511
22573/ctv1z9smcm JSTOR
Travel.
Timor-Leste--Description and travel.
Timor-Leste--Social life and customs.
Timor-Leste--Social conditions.
Timor-Leste.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
DS649.4 / .P36 2021
915.987