Author : Christopher John Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9813250925
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters by Christopher John Shepherd Pdf
By presenting a history of Western ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period, this intriguing study offers an original synthesis of the country's history, culture and anthropology. The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work and experience of a particular ethnographer. Covering a selection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century ethnographies, the author explores the relationship between spiritual beliefs, colonial administration, ethnographic interests and fieldwork experience.