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One day, in the village of Laiara, located in the easternmost Timorese
district of Lautem, where the Fataluku speakers reside, we entered a
house built on high wooden pillars; behind it were the graves of several
of its deceased residents. which we later visited. We had come to talk
with a group of six men about Nari. a locality situated on a nearby plateau
six hundred meters above sea leve. All those men were patrilineal
descendants of the central figure in a book authored by the Salesian
missionary José Bernardino Rodrigues. ln that book. Father Rodrigues
describes his relationships with Fataluku speakers in Lautem between
1947 and 1957. referring specifically to his personal relationship with
a man named Perekoro. whom he called "the king of Nari."
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Timor-Leste Catholic missionaries
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Citation
Viegas, S. de M., Feijó, R. G. (2019). Funerary posts and Christian crosses: Fataluku cohabitations with Catholic missionaries after world war II (Timor-Leste). In Roque, R., Traube, E. G. (Eds.). Crossing Histories and Ethnographies. Following colonial historicities in Timor-Leste, pp. 177-202. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books