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<div style="background:white; margin:0cm 23.25pt 0pt 0cm; line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif; font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif; font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">We are excited that
Susanna Barnes will share with us her recent research on East Timorese society. Having recently submitted her dissertation, based on lengthy fieldwork in East Timor, Susanna is well-positioned to update us on the difficult nexus between culture and the aspiration
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If you are considering driving to the seminar, please consult this webpage for updates about parking at Monash:
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align:center" align="center"><span style="line-height:107%; font-family:"arial black",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Customary renewal in post-occupation East Timor and the construction of the future as a 'cultural fact'<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align:center" align="center"><span style="line-height:107%; font-family:"arial black",sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Susana Barnes, Anthropology, Monash University</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt"><span style="line-height:107%; font-family:"times new roman",serif; font-size:12pt">When? November 9, 2016, 1.00-2.30 p.m.</span></p>
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One of the striking features of independence era East Timor has been the widespread revitalisation and recalibration of customary beliefs and practices. What is to be made of this process? What, if anything, can it tell us about people’s aspirations and desires
for the future? In this paper, I take up the call for a better anthropological understanding of the construction of the future as a ‘cultural fact’ and the implications of this for people’s ‘capacity to aspire’ - their ability to mobilise resources in order
to make strategic decisions about their future. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Babulo suku, Uato Lari sub-district I suggest that acts of customary renewal represent a cultural response to the uncertainties and opportunities created by independence. This
‘cultural’ response is not motivated by a desire to re-create the past in the present but rather it represents an attempt to draw on the past in order to negotiate the future. The renewal of customary beliefs and practices reveals a continued commitment to
a shared cultural framework and shared vision for what constitutes a ‘good life’. However, acts of customary renewal are also sites of friction where status and political influence is affirmed and contested, and consensus is negotiated through rhetoric and
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Susana Barnes is a PhD candidate at Monash University and recently submitted her PhD thesis entitled 'Customary renewal and the pursuit of power and prosperity in post-occupation East Timor: a case study from Babulo, Uato-Lari’. Her research interests are East
Timor ethnography, comparative Austronesian studies, customary land and natural resource governance, ritual and religion, and customary health and healing practices.</span></p>
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<font size="2" color="#0b5394">L</font></b><font size="2" color="#0b5394">ocation: Menzies Building 20 Ch, 4th Floor, East Wing, Room E470 Clayton Campus<br>
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</font></font><a href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/sara-niner/" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="#0b5394">http://profiles.arts.monash.ed<wbr>u.au/sara-niner/
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</strong>W</font></em><span style="line-height:130%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt"></span></span><em>omen and the politics of gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste<span style="background:white">,
</span></em>Women in Asia Series, Routledge. </font><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Women-and-the-Politics-of-Gender-in-Post-Conflict-Timor-Leste-Between/Niner/p/book/9781138999121" target="_blank"><font color="#ff9900">More info here</font></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal; margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3" color="#000040" face="Times New Roman"></font><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148); line-height:115%; font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size:9pt">Monash University's Australian campuses
are proudly on Kulin land. Monash University acknowledges and pays respects to the Kulin people, including elders past and present.</span></p>
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