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December 2019

December 2019

Professor Bruce Jacobs 1943-2019

Bruce Jacobs, Emeritus Professor of Chinese Studies at Monash University, was the leading figure in Taiwan Studies in Australia. He authored three books, and numerous articles and commentaries about Taiwanese politics and history over his long career. Bruce first lived in Taiwan from the 1960s, during the authoritarian period, as a Columbia University graduate student […]

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Haunted houses and ghostly encounters: ethnography and animism in East Timor, 1860–1975

Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters has recently been published by National University of Singapore Press as part of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) – Southeast Asia Publications Series. Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters presents the history of Western ethnography of indigenous religion––or animism––in East Timor during the final century of Portuguese rule, until

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