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Customary Governance in Post-Independence Timor-Leste: Spirit Ecologies of the House

By (author) Andrew McWilliam, By (author) Lisa Palmer, With Quintiliano Mok, With Jorge Lopes, With Balthasar Kehi, With Susanna Barnes, With Josh Trindade

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This book examines the dynamics of a 'return to custom' in post-independence Timor-Leste; a set of practices connecting ancestral house communities with the complex spirit ecologies upon which people's livelihoods and well-being depend. Drawing on detailed comparative studies, it considers the contribution of custom and its inter-generational legacies to the development of sustainable social and environmental policies of governance in Southeast Asia's newest nation-state. The book is both a timely study of social renewal in post-conflict societies, and a creative contribution to the possibilities of sustainable environmental and cultural resource management in Timor-Leste and the wider region.

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Publisher | Leiden University Press
Published date | 27 Feb 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 192
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-9-0872-8474-9
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BISAC | social science / sociology / general

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