{"title":"Dark tourism in Timor-Leste: An examination of foreign tourists' visits to the Santa Cruz cemetery and the Comarca Balide prison via analysis of Tripadvisor reviews","authors":"Amy Rothschild","doi":"10.1111/taja.12526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12526","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the brutal Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste from 1975 to 1999, over 100,000 Timorese out of an estimated population of 650,000 lost their lives; thousands more suffered a range of horrific human rights violations. This paper discusses ‘dark tourism’—tourism linked with this violent past—in Timor-Leste's post-independence era. The paper focuses its analysis of dark tourism on two of the most well-known tourist sites linked with the Indonesian past, both sites of former violence: the Santa Cruz cemetery and the Comarca Balide prison. It looks specifically at international tourists' experiences at the two sites. The paper contributes to debates over the morality of dark tourism, as well as to human rights and transitional justice literatures that examine how memorialisation efforts play out on the ground. It argues, among other things, that a view of dark tourism as purely amoral thrill-seeking or voyeurism should be tempered. The case of Timor-Leste shows us instead that dark tourism can play an important role in individuals' attempts to understand, learn more about, and otherwise make meaning out of complicated pasts of violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"220-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sanan rai wisdom in Atauro's tourism transformation","authors":"Ana Carolina Ramos Oliveira","doi":"10.1111/taja.12527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the history and activities of the Timorese NGO Empreza Di'ak, focusing on its role in revitalising traditional pottery (<i>sanan rai</i> in Tetum) on Atauro Island. Traditionally a form of women's knowledge, pottery has been reimagined in the post-independence era as cultural heritage at risk of extinction, now transformed into commodities primarily targeting the tourist market. The paper explores the interplay of social, economic, and generational factors driving the revival of <i>sanan rai</i> production within the broader context of positioning Atauro as an international tourism destination. It delves into the complexities, challenges, and subjectivities that arise, alongside the unexpected situations and evolving expectations of local communities as they navigate this process of (re)engaging with and revaluing a nearly lost tradition.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"192-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsettled and unsettling tourism landscapes of Timor-Leste","authors":"Amy Rothschild, Susanna Barnes","doi":"10.1111/taja.12529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"151-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renegotiating domesticity in the making of homestays in Atauro, Timor-Leste","authors":"Kelly Silva, Maria Luiza Vietes Pedrosa","doi":"10.1111/taja.12528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12528","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores emerging domesticities in Atauro, Timor-Leste, in relation to efforts to make homestays available for potential tourists. In exploring these new domesticities, we elucidate the ‘civilising process’ that is happening in terms of the ways in which people consider hygiene, diet, and their relationship with non-human animals. In addition, the advent of potential tourism engenders the emergence of a new trend in domestic architecture. At the same time, this raising of homestays has intensified the workload of especially younger women, preventing them from taking part in collective activities and agriculture, which makes them more dependent on the market economy. Our analysis of these processes points to the heuristic potential of intersectional analysis to better understand development dynamics in contemporary Timor-Leste.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"175-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The made-up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty, Ithaca and London: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University Press. 2022. pp. xvii + 179. US$27.95 (pbk), US$130 (hbk). ISBN: 9781501766671","authors":"Martha Macintyre","doi":"10.1111/taja.12523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"358-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derriere le Miroir (but in parallel) John Richens Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other Melbourne:Melbourne University Press. 2022. pp xi 2–260.ISBN 9780522878141","authors":"Lawrence J. Hammar","doi":"10.1111/taja.12516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"349-354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self–Other Relations across Southeast Asian Languages By Dwi Noverrini Djenar and Jack Sidnell (Eds), Singapore: NUS Press. 2023. pp. ix + 249, bibliography, index, SGD $52.00 (Hc.), ISBN 9789813251847","authors":"Jian Shan","doi":"10.1111/taja.12522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"362-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143247457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uneven connections: A partial history of the mobile phone in Papua New Guinea By Robert J. Foster. Canberra: ANU press. 2024. pp. xvi + 221, notes, figures, bibliography, index. AU$59.99. ISBN 9781760466251","authors":"David Lipset","doi":"10.1111/taja.12521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12521","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"366-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building on borrowed time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in semarang By Lukas Ley (Ed.), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2021. 240 pp. (pbk). US$27.00 (Sc). ISBN: 9781517908881. US$108.00 (Hc.). ISBN: 9781517908874","authors":"Sebastian Salay","doi":"10.1111/taja.12520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"360-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An indigenous safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusation in the highlands of Papua New Guinea","authors":"Michael Main","doi":"10.1111/taja.12518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12518","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper describes a safehouse project for survivors of witchcraft accusations that has been initiated by people of the Hewa-speaking community located in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Belief in witchcraft and the killing of accused witches has a long cultural history among Hewa people, where it was formerly part of intergroup conflict and patterns of dominance and retribution. Contemporary Hewa witch killing often involves the use of torture and the targeting of children and infants, although these have no historical precedent. The safehouse has been established inside the community itself. Locating the safehouse where accusations and killing are taking place is a deliberate strategy to change the belief system that supports the identification and killing of accused witches. This model also ensures that people do not become internally displaced when they flee their accusers. The safehouse is designed to be self-sufficient so that is does not become reliant on aid from external organisations.</p>","PeriodicalId":45452,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Anthropology","volume":"35 3","pages":"272-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/taja.12518","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}