The book examines the close relations that are established between land, exchange regimes, and political systems in the framework of a reflection on the challenges before present-day Timor-Leste. It puts forward the idea of "co-habitations," which aims at inscribing the mutual influences arising from the existence of distinct social processes not only side by side but in their mutual influences, sometimes resulting from effective clashes. From this analytical viewpoint of evolving power dynamics of co-habitations, experts in the field investigate issues that have been contentious in the...