Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste (2019)

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Release Date

07 Jul, 2019

Runtime

00:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Healing in Timor-Leste is rarely straightforward. Timorese people acknowledge and embrace multiple pathways to healing in a complex interplay between spiritual care, comfort and personal connection. Through lifelong observation and learning, they trial a variety of practices and pass down their knowledge to the next generation. Holding Tightly observes seven approaches to healing in remote, rural and urban parts of the Baucau municipality in the country’s east, spanning contexts and experiences from the armed resistance era to the independence period.

Original Title

Hametin Hatutan Lisan no Ai-moruk iha Timor-Leste

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