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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Frontiers imagined, frontiers observed
• short of history of a small country
• Life between lines: an outline of Oecussi
• kase, the meto, and the threefold division of indigenous life in Oecussi
• Urban highlanders: movement and authority in Oecussi
• Encounter. Change. Experience
• Theories of encounter
• Theories of change
• Theories of experience
• Encountering Oecussi: serendipity and the social imperative
• Strolling in a Southeast Asian borderland: local frameworks, international aspirations
• 2. Body and belief in Timor-Leste
• His name was Octobian Oki
• dual utility of ritual in urban Timor
• Spirits, somatic experience, and the limits of belief
• Jake's story: Atauro
• Jake's story: Oecussi
• Land as life in Timor-Leste
• the embodiment of knowing
• 3. ruin and return of Markus Sulu'

• Precedence and the modern pegawai
• Sulu, their supplicants, and the shame of Markus
• All Timor knew about the Sulu'
• Rain and money: meto tales as a way of controlling kase fortunes
• Conclusion
• 4. Angry spirits in the special economic zone
• ZEESM
• Timor's special economic zone
• High modernism
• Oecussi's indigenous political/spiritual system
• Growing food and relationships: Meto land practices
• Affect, angry spirits, and resistance in Oecussi
• Illness, anxiety, and affect in an inspirited land
• Conclusion
• 5. Stones, saints and the S̀acred Family'
• Religion in Oecussi: the concept of le'u, the coming of the Catholic and the influence of the Indonesian state
• ̀Heat', healing, and the meto in Oecussi
• S̀trangeness', Mr. Bean and meto healing in 2015
• book of Dan. The door in the tree
• Stones that look like saints
• Healing and the Sacred Family
• Conclusion
• 6. Meto kingship and environmental governance
• Forests, failed states, and the local as a way of getting by
• Jose and forest: personal ecologies of governance in the 21st century
• Cloaking kingship - the Koa and the consolations of a failing state
• constraining - and enabling - effect of meto perspectives on kase law
• Conclusion
• 7. Ritual speech and education in Kutete
• Eskola Lalehan
• Ritual speech in Oecussi
• Children of the charcoal, children of the pencil
• Conclusion
• Concluding thoughts: encounter, change, experience
• animating interior: the meto and economic development
• Seeming like a state
• Lives in motion: the meto as movement in a global age.

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Author/Creator:

Rose, Michael , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Indigenous spirits and global aspirations in a southeast Asian borderland: Timor-Leste's Oecussi enclave [by Rose, M.]

Subjects:

Indigenous peoples — Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste — Civilization

Timor-Leste — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO ; viewed June 3, 2020)

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DS646.5 .R67 2020eb

ISBNs:

9789048550340 (electronic bk.)
9048550343 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1155974635

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6225927 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16665781