Over the past 40 years, life in Timor-Leste has changed radically. Before 1975 most of the population lived in highland villages, spoke local languages, and rarely used money. Today many have moved to peri-urban lowland settlements, and even those whose lives remain dominated by customary ways understand that those of their children will not. For the Atoni Pah Meto of Timor-Leste's remote Oecussi Enclave, the world was neatly divided into two distinct categories: the meto (indigenous), and the kase (foreign). Now matters are less clear; the good things of the globalised world are pursued not…mehr
Over the past 40 years, life in Timor-Leste has changed radically. Before 1975 most of the population lived in highland villages, spoke local languages, and rarely used money. Today many have moved to peri-urban lowland settlements, and even those whose lives remain dominated by customary ways understand that those of their children will not. For the Atoni Pah Meto of Timor-Leste's remote Oecussi Enclave, the world was neatly divided into two distinct categories: the meto (indigenous), and the kase (foreign). Now matters are less clear; the good things of the globalised world are pursued not through rejecting the meto ways of the village, or collapsing them into the kase, but through continual crossing between them. In this way, the people of Oecussi are able to identify in the struggles of lowland life, the comforting and often decisive presence of familiar highland spirits.
Dr Michael Rose is a research fellow at the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific. He is an anthropologist and author with a passion for narrative ethnography and a varied, even colourful, background working jobs in policy, agriculture, international development and education throughout Eurasia and Australia.
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Chapter 1: Frontiers imagined frontiers observed A short of history of a small country Life between lines: an outline of Oecussi The kase the meto and the threefold division of indigenous life in Oecussi Urban highlanders: movement and authority in Oecussi Encounter. Change. Experience Theories of encounter Theories of change Theories of experience Encountering Oecussi: serendipity and the social imperative Chapter 1 works cited Chapter 2: Body and belief in Timor-Leste His name was Octobian Oki The dual utility of ritual in urban Timor Spirits somatic experience and the limits of belief Jake's story: Atauro Jake's story: Oecussi Land as life in Timor-Leste - the embodiment of knowing Chapter 2 works cited Chapter 3: The ruin and return of Markus Sulu Precedence and the modern pegawai The Sulu their supplicants and the shame of Markus 'All Timor knew about the Sulu' Rain and money: meto tales as a way of controlling kase fortunes Conclusion Chapter 3 works cited Chapter 4: Angry spirits in the special economic zone ZEESM - Timor's special economic zone High modernism Oecussi's indigenous political/spiritual system Growing food and relationships: Meto land practices Affect angry spirits and resistance in Oecussi Illness anxiety and affect in an inspirited land Conclusion Chapter 4 works cited Chapter 5: Stones saints and the 'Sacred Family' Religion in Oecussi: the concept of le'u the coming of the Catholic and the influence of the Indonesian state 'Heat' healing and the meto in Oecussi 'Strangeness' Mr. Bean and meto healing in 2015 The book of Dan. The door in the tree Stones that look like saints Healing and the Sacred Family Conclusion Chapter 5 works cited Chapter 6: Meto kingship and environmental governance Forests failed states and the local as a way of getting by Jose and forest: personal ecologies of governance in the 21st century Cloaking kingship - the Besi and the consolations of a failing state The constraining - and enabling - effect of meto perspectives on kase law Conclusion Chapter 6 works cited Chapter 7: Ritual speech and education in Kutete Eskola Lalohan Ritual speech in Oecussi Children of the charcoal children of the pencil Conclusion Chapter 7 works cited Concluding thoughts: encounter change experience An animating interior: the meto and economic development Seeming like a state Lives in motion: the meto as movement in a global age Concluding thoughts: works cited Selected Glossary Bibliography Index.
Chapter 1: Frontiers imagined frontiers observed A short of history of a small country Life between lines: an outline of Oecussi The kase the meto and the threefold division of indigenous life in Oecussi Urban highlanders: movement and authority in Oecussi Encounter. Change. Experience Theories of encounter Theories of change Theories of experience Encountering Oecussi: serendipity and the social imperative Chapter 1 works cited Chapter 2: Body and belief in Timor-Leste His name was Octobian Oki The dual utility of ritual in urban Timor Spirits somatic experience and the limits of belief Jake's story: Atauro Jake's story: Oecussi Land as life in Timor-Leste - the embodiment of knowing Chapter 2 works cited Chapter 3: The ruin and return of Markus Sulu Precedence and the modern pegawai The Sulu their supplicants and the shame of Markus 'All Timor knew about the Sulu' Rain and money: meto tales as a way of controlling kase fortunes Conclusion Chapter 3 works cited Chapter 4: Angry spirits in the special economic zone ZEESM - Timor's special economic zone High modernism Oecussi's indigenous political/spiritual system Growing food and relationships: Meto land practices Affect angry spirits and resistance in Oecussi Illness anxiety and affect in an inspirited land Conclusion Chapter 4 works cited Chapter 5: Stones saints and the 'Sacred Family' Religion in Oecussi: the concept of le'u the coming of the Catholic and the influence of the Indonesian state 'Heat' healing and the meto in Oecussi 'Strangeness' Mr. Bean and meto healing in 2015 The book of Dan. The door in the tree Stones that look like saints Healing and the Sacred Family Conclusion Chapter 5 works cited Chapter 6: Meto kingship and environmental governance Forests failed states and the local as a way of getting by Jose and forest: personal ecologies of governance in the 21st century Cloaking kingship - the Besi and the consolations of a failing state The constraining - and enabling - effect of meto perspectives on kase law Conclusion Chapter 6 works cited Chapter 7: Ritual speech and education in Kutete Eskola Lalohan Ritual speech in Oecussi Children of the charcoal children of the pencil Conclusion Chapter 7 works cited Concluding thoughts: encounter change experience An animating interior: the meto and economic development Seeming like a state Lives in motion: the meto as movement in a global age Concluding thoughts: works cited Selected Glossary Bibliography Index.
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