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Author(s):	Lia Kent

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	9463724311
Pages:	326	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	maveriks	Upload Date:	12/11/2024 10:38:50 PM

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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 nations 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 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.
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