The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste - Hardcoverby Lia Kent (Author) "What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?" asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship. In Timor Leste, a new nation state that experienced centuries of European colonialism before a violent occupation by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, the dead are active participants in social and political life who continue to operate within familial structures of obligation and