Christopher J. Shepherd, Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters. Ethnography and Animism in East Timor 1860-1975

The author of this intellectually stimulating book, Christopher J. Shepherd, an anthropologist, has an experience of fieldwork in East Timor. The book addresses the period from the second half of the 19th century to 1975. In a ground-breaking “anthology” of ethnographic writing and practice, Shepherd provides a discursive analysis of fieldwork’s methodology and background on the Eastern region of the island. Ethnographic locations of anthropologists are considered in the line of Clifford and ...