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- Title
Returning the Rock and Protecting the Game: Austronesian Custom and Environmental Governance in Timor‐Leste.
- Authors
Rose, Michael
- Abstract
This article explores how in Timor‐Leste the implementation of national law is shaped by local conditions. In Oecussi District, the ability of the state to regulate hunting is both constrained and enabled by the continuing importance of indigenous (meto) socio‐spiritual frameworks ontologically distinct from those assumed to be normative by both the State and outside actors. Through the case study of a public servant tasked with upholding these laws, I show how in Timor‐Leste the seeming stability of centralized control cloaks a more complex reality whereby the daily practice of governance emerges from the interaction of local perspectives on nature and governance with state authorized authority.
- Subjects
TIMOR-Leste; ROCKS; GAMES; HUNTING
- Publication
Oceania, 2020, Vol 90, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ocea.5240