Playing with ambiguity: The making and unmaking of local power in postcolonial Timor‐Leste

@article{Simio2020PlayingWA,
  title={Playing with ambiguity: The making and unmaking of local power in postcolonial Timor‐Leste},
  author={Daniel Schroeter Simi{\~a}o and Kelly Silva},
  journal={The Australian Journal of Anthropology},
  year={2020},
  volume={31},
  pages={333-346}
}
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