New Book Announcement: “The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste” by Lia Kent
“What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?” asks Lia Kent. In Timor-Leste, a new nation-state that experienced centuries of European colonialism before a violent occupation by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, the dead are active participants in social and political life who continue to operate within familial structures of obligation…
