Please find details below of a new anthropological publication on
Timor-Leste. I'd be grateful if you could please forward this to the
East Timor Studies list.<br><br>Best, Victoria Stead<br><br clear="all"><br>Victoria Stead (2012). "Embedded in the Land: Customary Social Relations
and Practices of Resilience in an East Timorese Community", <i>The Australian Journal of Anthropology</i> 23(2): 229-247. <br>
<br><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1757-6547.2012.00183.x/abstract" target="_blank">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1757-6547.2012.00183.x/abstract</a><br><br>Drawing
on a case study of Cacavei, a rural subsistence community in Lospalos,
Timor-Leste, this article explores the mutually constitutive
relationship between people and land within customary forms of society.
Patterns of land use and connection to land are not simply <em>reflective</em> of genealogical modes of social organisation, but are also <em>enabling</em>
of them. Particularly, the embedding of ancestors within the land
offers a means of accessing kinship relationships beyond the
genealogical present. Embeddedness provides a <em>quality</em> of
embodiment that makes ancestors active participants in social life.
Constituted in the relational nexus of people and land, forms of social
organisation in Cacavei have a mutability which goes some way to
explaining the community’s resilience in spite of forced displacement
and cultural disruption during the period of Indonesian occupation. This
mutability might be considered more broadly as a source of resilience
for customary communities grappling with modernising processes of
change.<br>-- <br>
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