{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.18","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":"128492317","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":"7 Death Across the Border and the Prospects of Improved People to People Relationships","authors":"Andrey Damaledo","doi":"10.1017/9789048544448.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544448.009","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter explores the meanings of death among East Timorese who\u0000 are living in Indonesian West Timor. It particularly focuses on death\u0000 and transnational relationships, as increasingly East Timorese in West\u0000 Timor are opting to transfer the deceased across the border to be buried\u0000 in their home villages in Timor-Leste. At the same time, however, there\u0000 are other East Timorese who insist on burying the dead permanently in\u0000 West Timor. This phenomenon, the chapter argues, demonstrates not only\u0000 the enlivening ties between people and the dead but also the prospects of\u0000 death rituals for improving relationships between East Timorese divided\u0000 by violent conflicts, past atrocities, forced displacement, different political\u0000 allegiances, and nation-state boundaries.","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":"130332923","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":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"96 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":"116186193","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":"Unfulfilled Peace","authors":"D. Grenfell","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_ch05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_ch05","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter makes two intersecting arguments that demonstrate the\u0000 implications of the liberal peace on local efforts to address the consequences\u0000 of war. Firstly, a liberal peace aims to create conditions that tend\u0000 to miss ways in which peace is pursued locally, especially with regards to\u0000 the veneration of the dead. A liberal peace promotes a secular, nationally\u0000 constituted community with a centralised state and market economy, an\u0000 approach that fails to comprehend the importance of local expressions\u0000 of spirituality. This does not mean, however, that the dead are irrelevant\u0000 to liberalism, though an examination of why this is the case leads to the\u0000 second key claim that, somewhat paradoxically, accounts for illiberal\u0000 trends in the state in Timor-Leste.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"42 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":"127760754","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":"Susana de Matos Viegas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1hztrgg.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reflects on the subject of ancestors: what are they in Timor- Leste? Assuming a comparative perspective, I argue that ancestors are inscribed in unilineal kinship dynamics implying mutuality of being. The category of martyrs emerges in the historical process of resistance against Indonesian occupation and should be understood as part of the lived experience of ancestorship and cosmic circularity (lulik circle). Contrasting constrained forms of honouring the dead imposed by colonial authorities after the Japanese invasion during World War II with the liveliness of the programmes destined to support reburials and pay tribute to martyrs in post-independence Timor-Leste, I argue that more than war heroes, martyrs inscribe the homage to the deceased in the conquest of freedom and self-determination.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"37 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":"126482289","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":"10 Gender, Agency and the (In)Visibility of the Dead and the Wounded","authors":"Henri Myrttinen","doi":"10.1017/9789048544448.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544448.012","url":null,"abstract":"The official memorialisation in Timor-Leste of those who died in the\u0000 struggle for independence has been a visibly masculine one, giving\u0000 pride of place to those men who died in the armed struggle. This has\u0000 been replicated at the private level, with new memorials to fallen ex-\u0000 FALINTIL family members being erected across the country. While\u0000 this memorialisation of fallen heroes is understandable, it invisibilises\u0000 many other victims – women across the board and those of diverse\u0000 gender identities, unarmed men, those on the ‘losing’ side, as well as\u0000 the wounded and disabled. Apart from causing grief and concerned to\u0000 loved ones, these invisibilisations hide the messy complexities of the\u0000 occupation and undermine the state’s own claims of establishing an\u0000 inclusive narrative.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"259 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":"121204248","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":"Spirits Live Among Us","authors":"Alessandro Boarccaech","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_CH03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_CH03","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses the relationship between beliefs in the spirits of nature and the dead and the conception of hero among the Humangili, a community located in Ataúro Island, Timor-Leste. For this purpose I discuss the concept of culture, the influence of Lisan, the notion of person, the symbolism of the given name, the meaning of physical death, the hierarchical system, the relationship between soul and body, and the impacts of adopting Christianity, while also presenting local stories and myths, the journey of the Humangili’s hero, the notion of order and social stability, as well as the perceptions about the supernatural world and its influence in the world of the living. Overall, the ideas about the meaning of hero are part of a complex system that contributes to the maintenance of dominant narratives about local customs, cosmogonies, values and hierarchies, the perception of individual and collective identity, and the feeling of stability and social unity.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"2007 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":"127305236","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":"‘Sempre la’o ho ita’","authors":"Bronwyn Winch","doi":"10.5117/9789463724319_CH04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724319_CH04","url":null,"abstract":"With the power to impact people’s lives in any number of ways, the ancestors play a prominent role in ensuring (or in some cases, jeopardising) the safety and well-being of their living descendants. This chapter explores a range of different forms and practices of protection, risk mitigation, and methods of managing anxiety and dread. This includes an examination of items imbued with protective powers; rituals and prayers conducted to receive ancestral blessings and protection; and rituals aimed at identifying which transgressions or inadequate ancestor veneration have caused problems. These ongoing acts of exchange and engagement will be examined in the context of the ‘everyday’, as well as at more specific instances of heightened occasions of insecurity, violence and conflict.","PeriodicalId":205047,"journal":{"name":"The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste","volume":"242 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":"121874743","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}