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_bB68 2015
100 1 _aBovensiepen, Judith M.,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe land of gold
_h[electronic resource] :
_bpost-conflict recovery and cultural revival in independent Timor-Leste /
_cJudith M. Bovensiepen.
260 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bProject Muse,
_c2016
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
260 _aIthaca, New York :
_bSoutheast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University,
_c2015.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 200 pages) :)
_billustrations, maps.
336 _atext
_btxt
337 _acomputer
_bc
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
490 1 _aStudies on Southeast Asia series ;
_vno. 67
500 _aRevision of author's doctoral thesis.
500 _aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 173-190) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : the land of gold -- Sacred origins of life -- Concealing trunk knowledge -- The hazards of house reconstruction -- On the pain of separation -- Keeping the dead away -- Fear of the land -- Epilogue : not ancestor, not not-ancestor -- Glossary -- Idate words and acronyms.
520 _aIn the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, the disturbing events of the twenty-four-year-long Indonesian occupation are rarely articulated in narratives of suffering. Instead, the highlanders emphasize the significance of their return to the sacred land of the ancestors, a place where "gold" is abundant and life is thought to originate. On one hand, this collective amnesia is due to villagers' exclusion from contemporary nation-building processes, which bestow recognition only on those who actively participated in the resistance struggle against Indonesia. On the other hand, the cultural revival and the privileging of the ancestral landscape and traditions over narratives of suffering derive from a particular understanding of how human subjects are constituted. Before life and after death, humans and the land are composed of the same substance; only during life are they separated. To recover from the forced dislocation the highlanders experienced under the Indonesian occupation, they thus seek to reestablish a mythical, primordial unity with the land by reinvigorating ancestral practices. Never leaving out of sight the intense political and emotional dilemmas imposed by the past on people's daily lives, The Land of Gold seeks to go beyond prevailing theories of postconflict reconstruction that prioritize human relationships. Instead, it explores the significance of people's affective and ritual engagement with the environment and with their ancestors as survivors come to terms with the disruptive events of the past.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aRites and ceremonies
_zTimor-Leste.
650 0 _aAnthropology
_zTimor-Leste.
651 0 _aTimor-Leste
_xRural conditions
_y21st century.
651 0 _aTimor-Leste
_xSocial conditions
_y21st century.
651 0 _aTimor-Leste
_xSocial life and customs.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780877277972
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aStudies on Southeast Asia ;
_vno. 67.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780877272274/
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Archaeology and Anthropology
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Asian and Pacific Studies
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
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