Negotiating Tradition and Nation: Mediations and Mediators in the Making of Urban Timor-Leste
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In discussing marriage negotiations, this article analyses certain mediations and mediators that make up the dialectics of modernisation among contemporary urban middle-class elites in Timor-Leste. It brings to the fore the way particular Christian values are strategically used to reproduce, change or even enhance people�s agency regarding customary practices, and to circumscribe the marriage exchanges to the gift regime. Attitudes about fulfilling customary obligations vary, for they are...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2013 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/52828 |
Source: | Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, The |
DOI: | 10.1080/14442213.2013.821155 |
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