Narratives and Songs from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste

Dominique Guillaud, a cultural Geographer at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) within the Local Heritage and Globalisation joint research unit (PALOC, Paris), is editor or author of twelve books and numerous papers on different aspects of heritage, especially in the Indo-Pacific region from Indonesia to New-Caledonia and Timor-Leste. She focuses on questions of heritage as perceived by local populations, its oral expression, and its translation into territoriality and historicity.

Dana Rappoport is an ethnomusicologist affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and based in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CASE– CNRS–EHESS–INALCO) in Paris. She studies the musical traditions of the Insulindian archipelago by way of formal musicology, anthropology of religion, and social organization. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia (Sulawesi, Flores), and Timor-Leste. She is the author of Songs from the Thrice-Blooded Land: Ritual Music of the Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia).