[TimorLesteStudies] New Book: Lia Kent & Rui Feijo (eds) 'The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste' (Amsterdam University Press, 2020)

[Michael Leach]

Lia Kent & Rui Feijo (eds.). 2020.  The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 326pp.

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The Dead as Ancestors, Martyrs, and Heroes in Timor-Leste<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724319/the-dead-as-ancestors-martyrs-and-heroes-in-timor-leste>

Edited by Lia Kent and Rui Graça Feijó





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October 2020

326 pages, 10 b/w illustrations

Hardback

ISBN 9789463724319

e-ISBN 9789048544448

€109.00 / £99.00 / $136.00

€108.99 / £98.99 / $135.99

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<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724319/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.



Lia Kent is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.



Rui Graça Feijó is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, NOVA University of Lisbon.



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