Special Editions

Individual Essays

Introduction

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

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

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

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

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