Indigenous Spirits and Global Aspirations in a Southeast Asian Borderland: Timor-Leste's Oecussi Enclave

by Michael Rose

Over the past 40 years, life in Timor-Leste has changed radically. Before 1975 most of the population lived in highland villages, spoke local languages, and rarely used money. Today many have moved to peri-urban lowland settlements, and even those whose lives remain dominated by customary ways understand that those of their children will not. For the Atoni Pah Meto of Timor-Leste's remote Oecussi Enclave, the world was neatly divided into two distinct...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463723420
• ISBN13: 9789463723428
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 256 Pages