<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">New
book chapter on Timor-Leste: </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Maj
Nygaaard-Christensen. 2011. ‘The Rebel and the
Diplomat: Revolutionary Spirits, Sacred Legitimation, and Democracy in
Timor-Leste’. Pp. 209-229 in: Bubandt, Nils and van Beek, Martijn (Eds). <span> </span><i>Varieties
of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and
the Spiritual</i> (Routledge)</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><u>K</u><u>ey words</u></span><span lang="EN-GB">: Democracy, international community, Major
Alfredo, Boaventura, Ramos-Horta</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The chapter presents an ethnographic
analysis of the election campaign of Ramos-Horta and the rebellion of Major
Alfredo in 2007, with a focus on the turn to religion and ancestral or spiritual
legitimacy in contemporary Timorese politics. The chapter approaches the cases
of the two leaders not as a ’clash’ between modern and traditional notions of
legitimacy in Timor-Leste, but rather as part of a broader negotiation among
Timorese leaders, constituencies, as well as foreign commentators and
academics, about what belongs in a modern, democratic nation-state, and what
is, as Mary Douglas has it, ’out of place’ (Douglas 1966). </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>
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