
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters
Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860-1975
Christopher J. Shepherd(Author)
University of Hawai'i Press
Published on 30. April 2019
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-0-8248-7867-2 (ISBN)
Description
By presenting a history of Western ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period, this intriguing study offers an original synthesis of the country's history, culture and anthropology. The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work and experience of a particular ethnographer. Covering a selection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century ethnographies, the author explores the relationship between spiritual beliefs, colonial administration, ethnographic interests and fieldwork experience.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Honolulu, HI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-7867-2 (9780824878672)
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Person
Christopher J. Shepherd researches the indigenous populations of Peru and East Timor and their encounter with Western science, development and, now, colonialism and ethnography.