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Michael Rose, an anthropologist out of the ANU, has just published a book on Oecussi with the Amsterdam University Press.</p>
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A narrative ethnography, it is essentially a series of stories exploring at how, openly or implicitly,
<i>adat</i> remains essential to life in Timor today, and the author’s various misadventures in trying to understand and articulate this reality.</p>
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Along with the theory there is humour and pathos and personally inflected prose- hopefully readable enough to hold the interest of readers behind the esoteric world of scholarly anthro.</p>
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Although AUP have published it and up put it on sale for a cool €99- under their ‘green open access’ arrangement you can get a free copy through this link hosted by ANU. You can see the author is an anthropologist not a typesetter, but it’s all there.</p>
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Enjoy. Share. Set for your students. Repost. Review. Link is below…</p>
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<a href="http://devpolicy.org/publications/books/MRose_indigenous-spirits-and-global-aspirations-in-a-southeast-asian-borderlandDevPol.pdf">http://devpolicy.org/publications/books/MRose_indigenous-spirits-and-global-aspirations-in-a-southeast-asian-borderlandDevPol.pdf</a></p>
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