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The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste (Hardcover, 0)
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The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste (Hardcover, 0)
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During the 24-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor, thousands
of people died, or were killed, in circumstances that did not allow
the required death rituals to be performed. Since the nation's
independence, families and communities have invested considerable
time, effort and resources in fulfilling their obligations to the
dead. These obligations are imbued with urgency because the dead
are ascribed agency and can play a benevolent or malevolent role in
the lives of the living. These grassroots initiatives run,
sometimes critically, in parallel with official programs that seek
to transform particular dead bodies into public symbols of heroism,
sacrifice and nationhood. The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and
Heroes in Timor-Leste focuses on the dynamic interplay between the
potent presence of the dead in everyday life and their symbolic
usefulness to the state. It underlines how the dead shape
relationships amongst families, communities and the nation-state,
and open an important window into - are in fact pivotal to -
processes of state and nation formation.
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