Hunting and harvesting the commons : on the cultural politics of custom

Andrew McWilliam

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Abstract

In this chapter I seek to address questions of cohabitation and power in Timor-Leste by exploring an issue of long-standing interest around complex and often contested questions of resource use, entitlement and authority. These contests are typically expressed between institutions of the nation state (estado) and the diverse emplaced customary institutions (lisan) representing the bulk of the resident population; and I wish to highlight these issues by focusing on what are evidently widespread but poorly researched and documented practices of livelihood foraging in Timor-Leste.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTransformations in Independent Timor-Leste: Dynamics of Social and Cultural Cohabitations
EditorsSusana de Matos Viegas, Rui Feijo
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages61-78
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781315535012
ISBN (Print)9781138691438
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Timor-Leste
  • hunting and gathering societies
  • politics and government

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