Haunted houses and ghostly encounters : ethnography and animism in East Timor, 1860-1975 /

Haunted houses and ghostly encounters : ethnography and animism in East Timor, 1860-1975 /

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Author / Creator:Shepherd, Christopher (Christopher John), author.
Imprint:Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Description:xxii, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Southeast Asia publications series
Southeast Asia publications series.
Subject:
Ethnology -- Timor-Leste -- History.
Animism -- Timor-Leste -- History.
Anthropologists -- Timor-Leste -- History.
Animism.
Anthropologists.
Ethnology.
Timor-Leste.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11803503
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ISBN:9780824878672
0824878671
Notes:Copublication with NUS Press, National University of Singapore.
Summary:By presenting a history of Western ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period, this intriguing study offers an original synthesis of the country's history, culture and anthropology. The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work and experience of a particular ethnographer. Covering a selection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century ethnographies, the author explores the relationship between spiritual beliefs, colonial administration, ethnographic interests and fieldwork experience.

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