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fotografias O autor ou a fonte são mencionados na legenda de cada fotografia tradução e revisão em língua portuguesa do «Prefácio», «Introdução», «Oleu Pitine» e «A Religião em Timor-Leste desde uma perspetiva Histórico-Antropológica» Advance Translations, S.L. | www.advance-translations.com apoio logístico © desta edição Salesianos de Dom Bosco Timor-Leste, 2012. © dos textos Os autores. © das ilustrações Elena Tognoli | www.elenatognoli.eu © das fotografias Os autores ou proprietários da fonte, indicados na legenda © do desenho David Palazón | www.incidentaldoc.com Edição não comercial. Proibida a sua venda. Proibida a reprodução total ou parcial desta obra, de qualquer forma ou meio eletrónico, e mecânico, fotográfico e gravado ou qualquer outro, sem a permissão expressa dos titulares do copyright. A Agência Espanhola de Cooperação Internacional para o Desenvolvimento em Timor-Leste promove a Cultura para o desenvolvimento, e isto não seria viável se não se actuasse com o consenso e a valorização dos actores, sem os quais os projectos de cooperação para o desenvolvimento não seriam possíveis.

This article reports on a project involving the development and release of an ethnographic film about the women divers of Atauro Island, Timor- Leste, and suggests a theoretical framework to interpret its outcomes. It describes the project aims and the filmmaking process, and reports on its results. In doing so, the paper explores the potential use of an agent- based concept of narrative capital focused on collective agents. The article suggests that the ideas of narrative capital and transformations of capital by collective agents can provide a valuable interpretative framework for the design, implementation, and analyses of results of development interventions involving filmmaking.

Timor Rungaranga is an epic photobook, taking you on an unforgettable journey through the wild, wild east of Timor-Leste. An uncut diamond at the edge of the world, the country’s surreal and sublime nature is explored through a striking and vast collection of visual essays.

David Palazón’s curious nature and unique sense of humour bring us close into the hearts and lives of Timorese people, capturing the fleeting, incidental moments of those he met on his journey through this young nation. A country of unparalleled beauty, yet unrivalled contradictions, where old traditions collide with new modern worlds, and the sacred meets the profane. 

8 years in the making, this photobook is the first of-its-kind coming out from the youngest nation in Asia. It also features carefully selected contributions by leading authors, artists, and photographers, giving further depth to this outstanding visual exploration of this young nation. An unconventional gem of a photobook, and a must-have for anyone interested in Timor-Leste. Miss it at your peril!

Wawata Topu is a documentary portraying a group of women divers in Atauro Island,
Timor-Leste. Initially aimed at increasing the visibility of women’s roles in the fisheries sector, the filmmaking process brought along a practical negotiation between the community and the filmmakers on the topics to be included in the film. This paper describes the filmmaking process, reports on the final contents of the film, and explains the reasons the different themes were included. Based on a previous theoretical exploration on the notion of narrative capital, we suggest that this process of negotiation resulted in the enhancement of the women’s narrative capabilities. After the release of the film, the protagonists were able to transform their enhanced capacity to be heard and acknowledged into social and symbolic resources leading to economic and health benefits.

Wawata Topu is a documentary portraying a group of women divers in Atauro Island, Timor-Leste. Initially aimed at increasing the visibility of women's roles in the fisheries sector, the filmmaking process brought along a practical negotiation between the community and the filmmakers on the topics to be included in the film. This paper describes the filmmaking process, reports on the final contents of the film, and explains the reasons the different themes were included. Based on a previous theoretical exploration on the notion of narrative capital, we suggest that this process of negotiation resulted in the enhancement of the women's narrative capabilities. After the release of the film, the protagonists were able to transform their enhanced capacity to be heard and acknowledged into social and symbolic resources leading to economic and health benefits.

A contemplaglo metafisica da natureza complementa-se com a devo~lo pelos antepassados, aos que se venera numa contiguidade consagrada entre os vivos e os mortos. Em sintese, a continuidade ontoldgica entre o mundo natural, humano e sobrenatural constitui um principio fundamental de entendimento da vida local. Temporariamente estabelece-se uma relaglo conceptual que incorpora, num entendimento circular, passado, presente e futuro, que se localiza na sacralizaglo de espasos naturais emblemiticos, como rios ou montanhas, essencia da permanencia, para alem da fugacidade da vida humana. Portanto, os espagos naturais sagrados sio caracterizados pela sua prdpria definigio lulik, Mrgrfir 31. Cemiterio familiarna lulik enquanto lugares de devogio espiritual, mas tambCm pela relagio com os bu Udi, suco Maubisse. antepassados, tanto os falecidos e recordados no relato familiar, como os miticos FotosrPfia 32. Caminho dos mortos (matebian protagonistas das narragdes cosmogcinicas. Dois exemplos concretos ilustram dalan) em Hatobui'icoj6 nos contrafortes do Ramelau. esta dimenslo espacial e temporal da cosmovido: a reverCncia pelo Monte Ramelau e o Caminho dos Mortos. rn da aldeia Sariala (Maubissel.