Island encounters : Timor-Leste from the outside in /

Island encounters : Timor-Leste from the outside in /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Palmer, Lisa, 1973- author.
Imprint:	Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 208 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	Monographs in anthropology series Monographs in anthropology series.
Subject:	Travel. Timor-Leste -- Description and travel. Timor-Leste -- Social life and customs. Timor-Leste -- Social conditions. Timor-Leste. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12659602

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Timor-Leste from the outside in
Other authors / contributors:	Australian National University Press, publisher.
ISBN:	9781760464516 1760464511 9781760464509 1760464503
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Summary:	Island Encounters is a narrative of Timor shaped by a journey from the outside in. 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.
Other form:	Print version: Island encounters : Timor-Leste from the outside in. Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, 2021 9781760464509

Table of Contents:

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.