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The Functioning of the Political Community in Timor

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Now that we have discussed almost every one of the political communities of Indonesian Timor separately we shall proceed to go into the general aspects of the manner in which they functioned, in order to arrive, partly on the basis of this, at a general evaluation of the structure and to determine the structural principles for the political community as an integral part of the culture as a whole.

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Nordholt, H.G.S. (1971). The Functioning of the Political Community in Timor. In: The Political System of the Atoni of Timor. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1013-4_11

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