Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860-1975

by Christopher Shepherd

Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860-1975 presents a history of Western ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period. The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work and experience of a particular ethnographer. Part One deals with colonial ethnography and Part Two with professional anthropology. Covering a selection of seminal nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethnographies,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824878671
• ISBN13: 9780824878672
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"