{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9789048544448-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544448-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127128293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"13 Selling Names","authors":"Kate Roll","doi":"10.1515/9789048544448-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544448-016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131470600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gathering the Dead, Imagining the State?","authors":"L. Kent","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125901457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ancestors and Martyrs in Timor-Leste","authors":"S. Viegas","doi":"10.1017/9789048544448.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544448.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122919198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2 Remembering the Martyrs of National Liberation in Timor-Leste","authors":"M. Leach","doi":"10.1017/9789048544448.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544448.004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the way martyrs of the independence struggle\u0000 are remembered in the independent nation of Timor-Leste. It examines\u0000 the changing nature of definitions of martyrdom during the Portuguese\u0000 and Indonesian colonial eras, and beyond independence, through an\u0000 examination of changing patterns of memorialisation, commemoration,\u0000 and cultural heritage. It also examines how the concept of martyrdom\u0000 has becomes a site of struggles for official recognition in the postindependence\u0000 state, with frequently strong distinctions between the\u0000 type of state recognition afforded to military resistance veterans, and to\u0000 civilian victims of human rights abuses.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117005518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working for the Living and the Dead","authors":"S. Blau","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_CH08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_CH08","url":null,"abstract":"Forensic science and medicine play a critical role in human identification, with the underlying premise being that ‘the truth’ can be empirically and objectively obtained. This chapter explores some of the approaches to exhumation and identification undertaken in Timor-Leste and discusses some of the complexities associated with scientific reason and the notion of the construction of ‘forensic truth’. The difficulty of establishing personal identification from skeletal remains in Timor-Leste is discussed in the context of large numbers of missing persons, the fact that atrocities took place in multiple locations over a 24-year period, and the fact that there is limited local forensic capacity. In addition, the ways in which the process of identification is understood is discussed in light of different notions of ‘truth’, highlighting the political, social, and ethical complexities at play.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122585782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Politics of Loss and Restoration","authors":"V. K. Sakti","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_CH06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_CH06","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter engages with the after-effects of the Bobometo village\u0000 massacre in Oecussi on the lives of surviving family members and the\u0000 social and cultural world in which they live. Focusing on the dead and\u0000 their ongoing relations with the living, it explores the multiple ‘lives’\u0000 and potencies of the ‘bad’ and political dead and their interplay. Based\u0000 on cross-border ethnographic research, this chapter explores how these\u0000 dynamics shape new forms of relatedness between the living and the\u0000 dead, the local and the state, and within family networks now separated\u0000 across the borderlands. It discusses what acts of remembrance for the\u0000 conflict dead can tell us about the politics of loss and restoration in the\u0000 aftermath of massive violence and bad death.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128946086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Politics of Memory","authors":"R. Feijó","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_CH11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_CH11","url":null,"abstract":"Afonso Savio and Commander Falu Cai were active members of the Resistance.\u0000 Their respective deaths took place in times of extreme hardship,\u0000 surrounded by controversy regarding circumstances and culpability.\u0000 When Timor-Leste regained independence, clouds of doubt hung over\u0000 their memories, preventing them from being honoured as true heroes of\u0000 the liberation. Their families mounted strategies to fight those contested\u0000 memories and to establish a hegemonic narrative that restored their\u0000 martyrdom to the national pantheon of heroes. Funerary arrangements\u0000 and memorials were organized to enshrine their new condition. More than\u0000 material gains, it is argued that the driving force behind their families’\u0000 efforts was a goal of obtaining recognition of a specific social status in a\u0000 highly hierarchical society.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124241993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9 Remembering the Dead in Post-Independence Timor-Leste","authors":"A. Rothschild","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_CH09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_CH09","url":null,"abstract":"How have the estimated 102,800 Timorese who were killed or otherwise\u0000 died as a result of the Indonesian occupation been remembered in\u0000 Timor-Leste’s post-independence period? While Timor-Leste’s state has\u0000 remembered the deceased through a lens of heroism and martyrdom,\u0000 international human rights institutions in Timor-Leste, such as the CAVR,\u0000 have remembered the deceased through a lens of victimhood. The chapter\u0000 compares and contrasts the state’s framing of the dead as heroes and\u0000 martyrs with the CAVR’s framing of the dead as victims and asks why the\u0000 state’s framing has come to dominate in the present day. This chapter is\u0000 based on data from over three years of work and research in Timor-Leste,\u0000 spanning the years 2002-2013.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123108291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selling Names","authors":"Kate Roll","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_ch13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_ch13","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on pension payments to the families of martyrs and\u0000 explores the ways in which resources have been marshalled to address the\u0000 ‘material dimension’ of state recognition. It describes the complexities of\u0000 this task, including the state’s role in arbitrating whether a person who\u0000 died in the conflict should be recognised as a ‘martyr’ and thus eligible for\u0000 state support, and details the ways in which actors have grounded claims\u0000 for material support. These distinctive discourses involve the mobilisation\u0000 of the dead and their suffering to create material state obligations to the\u0000 living. The final section takes a deeper look at the controversy around\u0000 ‘selling names’, whereby the names of martyrs have taken on material\u0000 value.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125245756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}