Timor Leste. Haunted houses and ghostly encounters: Ethnography and animism in East Timor, 1860–1975.

Shepherd's book, then, has value on multiple levels, and I enthusiastically recommend it to anyone interested in histories of ethnography, animism, or reflexive or ontological anthropology. The point here is to illuminate how ethnographers become a part of a story, as catalysts for animist events through the negative effects of, for instance, breaching taboos, or the more productive but still complicated promise of a revitalisation or validation of local ideas. "Animism" as a term came from such efforts, as colonial ethnographers sought to categorise and understand local ways of life. [Extracted from the article]