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Paths to infinity: Ancestorship, origin narratives and differentiation
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In November 2016, Rui Graça Feijó and I organized a round table in the Archive and
Museum of the Timorese Resistance in Dili, centred around a photo exhibition we both
curated. It comprehended a number of images of funerary posts named in Fataluku arapou
cau1 (Fat: buffalo head), consisting of several metres high wooden posts with skulls of buffalos
sacrificed at mortuary ceremonies. In the ensuing debate, two of our Fataluku
interlocutors insisted that putting such funerary posts next to a tomb was not universal
amongst Fataluku-speaking peoples. Amongst the variety of reasons aired by them and the
audience, the social status of the deceased, the material wealth of his family, and the fact that
some Fataluku were baptized (a condition that could militate against this possibility) have
generated wide acceptance.
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Fataluku Funerary posts Timor-Leste
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Viegas, S. de M. (2019). Paths to infinity: Ancestorship, origin narratives and differentiation. In McWilliam, A., Leach, M. (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary East-Timor, pp. 241-265. London and New York: Routledge