‘Traversing Customary Community and Modern Nation-Formation in Timor-Leste’

Introduction

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Traversing customary community and modern nation-formation in Timor-Leste by Damian Grenfell

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Section One: Short Essays

‘Filling wounds with salt’: the pathologisation of trauma in Timor-Leste by Emily Toome

Playing pool at the Hard Rock Café by Gordon Peake

Re-interpreting customary practice as a framework for development: lessons of Timor-Leste’s Community Reconciliation Process by Sam Carroll-Bell

Negotiating modernisation and gender in the post-conflict reconstruction of Timor-Leste by Lynsze Woon

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Section Two: Reviewed essays

Entangled worlds villages and political community in Timor-Leste by M. A. Brown

New Fataluku diasporas and landscapes of remittance and return by Andrew McWilliam

Remembering the dead from the customary to the modern in Timor-Leste by Damian Grenfell

Multiple realities: the need to re-think institutional theory by Deborah Cummins

Compatibility, resilience and adaptation: the barlake of Timor-Leste by David Hicks

Barlake: an exploration of marriage practices and issues of women’s status in Timor-Leste by Sara Niner

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Section Three: Hybrid governance in local communities in Timor-Leste

Hyrid governance and democratisation—village governance in Timor-Leste by M. Anne Brown

Finding a new path between lisan and democracy at the suku level by Jose da Costa Magno and Antonio Coa

Electing community leaders: diversity in uniformity by Alex Gusmao

Customary social order and authority in the contemporary East Timorese village: persistence and transformation by Mateus Tilman

Introduction of a modern democratic system and its impact on societies in East Timorese traditional culture by Abel Boavida dos Santos and Elda da Silva

Dynamics of democracy at the suku level by Martinho Pereira and Maria Madalena Lete Koten