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Table of Contents
Intro
List of Maps
Map 1: Map of island Timor and journey from west to east.
Map 2: Location of Lookeu, one of the five kingdoms of Koba Lima.
Map 3: Wai Lia Bere's asserted underground flows and spring connections.
List of Photographs
Photo 1: Tais purchased in Dili, 1997.
Photo 2: Sunrise at Jaco.
Photo 3: Rice fields and mountains in the kingdom of Lookeu.
Photo 4: View from Biboki highlands towards Oecusse.
Photo 5: The main palace at Tam Kesi.
Photo 6: Honeycomb in the megaliths of Tam Kesi.
Photo 7: Zeca and puppy with friends in the rice fields.
Photo 8: Noefefan Bridge, Oecusse.
Photo 9: Monument to the Portuguese arrival, Lifau.
Photo 10: Liurai Antonio da Costa outside his Pante Makasar house (with author).
Photo 11: Rosa making earthenware pots.
Photo 12: Oecusse's main international border.
Photo 13: Graves of the former king of Ambeno, Joao da Cruz, and his wife, Maria da Cruz.
Photo 14: East Timorese 'garden house' in Atambua village.
Photo 15: The palace of Uma Metan Lookeu.
Photo 16: Ritual inside Uma Metan Lookeu.
Photo 17: A laku begins his climb.
Photo 18: The black stone basket offering.
Photo 19: Honey harvest fire blooms.
Photo 20: Straining the honey.
Photo 21: Flag house with painted Australian flag in Balibo.
Photo 22: View from Balibo Fort.
Photo 23: The channel between Jaco (Tortina) and mainland Timor‑Leste.
Photo 24: Women sewing inside Boneca de Atauro.
Photo 25: Quin and Jose.
Photo 26: Atauro coastline.
Photo 27: Cape Bondura coastline, Baucau.
Photo 28: Maria and her medicine cabinet.
Photo 29: Buffalo and herder on the Baucau plateau.
Photo 30: Kabu bee and rice farmers maintaining the irrigated water channels.
Photo 31: Wai Lia spring pool and government pump station.
Photo 32: Main road, Darasula.
Photo 33: Simiao and final water blessing.
Photo 34: Offering inside Wai Lia Bere cave.
Photo 35: Simiao's father at medicinal tree.
Photo 36: Rice harvest ritual offering.
Photo 37: Wai Daba rice fields with Mt Ariana in background (Old Man at right).
Photo 38: Tia Martina carries out her part of the rice harvest offering.
Photo 39: Lunch in Noyti's rice fields.
Photo 40: Madalena and Golden.
Photo 41: The purchased pig.
Photo 42: The 50-cent swing beach.
Photo 43: Students at Iralalaru and the Irasiqiru river (Demetrio speaking with Senhor Hermingildo standing at rear).
Photo 44: The Old Lady in her rice fields.
Photo 45: Januario's clinic with Salvador and his father.
Photo 46: Palmira pounding forest medicine.
Photo 47: Collected bones and soil in their sarongs.
Photo 48: Making the burial coffins.
Photo 49: The 23 grave compartments.
Photo 50: Carrying the grasses into the house reconstruction site.
Photo 51: The parent house reconstruction site with Matebian mountains in the background.
Photo 52: Offerings to the sacra.
Photo 53: The Old Man walking through rice fields.
Photo 54: View from our house.
Photo 55: Cooking katupa by the kitchen.
Photo 56: The Old Man carrying out a ritual at the Ocabai spring source.
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Not-So-Wild West
2. Enclave Society
3. Back Across the Border
4. Courting Bees in a Divided Land
5. The Politics of Lulik
6. Small Island Sojourns
7. Underground Flows
8. Ritual and Recovery
9. Life in the Rice Fields
10. 'The Geographical Tour'
11. Carrying the Name Forward
12. Opening the Paths to Healing
13. New Beginnings
Epilogue
Glossary of Language and Terms
Audiovisual Resources
Further Reading.
List of Maps
Map 1: Map of island Timor and journey from west to east.
Map 2: Location of Lookeu, one of the five kingdoms of Koba Lima.
Map 3: Wai Lia Bere's asserted underground flows and spring connections.
List of Photographs
Photo 1: Tais purchased in Dili, 1997.
Photo 2: Sunrise at Jaco.
Photo 3: Rice fields and mountains in the kingdom of Lookeu.
Photo 4: View from Biboki highlands towards Oecusse.
Photo 5: The main palace at Tam Kesi.
Photo 6: Honeycomb in the megaliths of Tam Kesi.
Photo 7: Zeca and puppy with friends in the rice fields.
Photo 8: Noefefan Bridge, Oecusse.
Photo 9: Monument to the Portuguese arrival, Lifau.
Photo 10: Liurai Antonio da Costa outside his Pante Makasar house (with author).
Photo 11: Rosa making earthenware pots.
Photo 12: Oecusse's main international border.
Photo 13: Graves of the former king of Ambeno, Joao da Cruz, and his wife, Maria da Cruz.
Photo 14: East Timorese 'garden house' in Atambua village.
Photo 15: The palace of Uma Metan Lookeu.
Photo 16: Ritual inside Uma Metan Lookeu.
Photo 17: A laku begins his climb.
Photo 18: The black stone basket offering.
Photo 19: Honey harvest fire blooms.
Photo 20: Straining the honey.
Photo 21: Flag house with painted Australian flag in Balibo.
Photo 22: View from Balibo Fort.
Photo 23: The channel between Jaco (Tortina) and mainland Timor‑Leste.
Photo 24: Women sewing inside Boneca de Atauro.
Photo 25: Quin and Jose.
Photo 26: Atauro coastline.
Photo 27: Cape Bondura coastline, Baucau.
Photo 28: Maria and her medicine cabinet.
Photo 29: Buffalo and herder on the Baucau plateau.
Photo 30: Kabu bee and rice farmers maintaining the irrigated water channels.
Photo 31: Wai Lia spring pool and government pump station.
Photo 32: Main road, Darasula.
Photo 33: Simiao and final water blessing.
Photo 34: Offering inside Wai Lia Bere cave.
Photo 35: Simiao's father at medicinal tree.
Photo 36: Rice harvest ritual offering.
Photo 37: Wai Daba rice fields with Mt Ariana in background (Old Man at right).
Photo 38: Tia Martina carries out her part of the rice harvest offering.
Photo 39: Lunch in Noyti's rice fields.
Photo 40: Madalena and Golden.
Photo 41: The purchased pig.
Photo 42: The 50-cent swing beach.
Photo 43: Students at Iralalaru and the Irasiqiru river (Demetrio speaking with Senhor Hermingildo standing at rear).
Photo 44: The Old Lady in her rice fields.
Photo 45: Januario's clinic with Salvador and his father.
Photo 46: Palmira pounding forest medicine.
Photo 47: Collected bones and soil in their sarongs.
Photo 48: Making the burial coffins.
Photo 49: The 23 grave compartments.
Photo 50: Carrying the grasses into the house reconstruction site.
Photo 51: The parent house reconstruction site with Matebian mountains in the background.
Photo 52: Offerings to the sacra.
Photo 53: The Old Man walking through rice fields.
Photo 54: View from our house.
Photo 55: Cooking katupa by the kitchen.
Photo 56: The Old Man carrying out a ritual at the Ocabai spring source.
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Not-So-Wild West
2. Enclave Society
3. Back Across the Border
4. Courting Bees in a Divided Land
5. The Politics of Lulik
6. Small Island Sojourns
7. Underground Flows
8. Ritual and Recovery
9. Life in the Rice Fields
10. 'The Geographical Tour'
11. Carrying the Name Forward
12. Opening the Paths to Healing
13. New Beginnings
Epilogue
Glossary of Language and Terms
Audiovisual Resources
Further Reading.