Felix Adriano – Preserving Culture
This short oral history with Senor Felix Adriano a carpenter in East Timor Suai, subtley conveys the impact of colonialism and the international competition for rights to the oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea on the life and language of a Timorese who was born in to Portuguese Timor. Senor Felix lived through the Indonesian invasion and saw Independence arrive in 1999, only to suffer further through the Suai Church Massacre until there came a time when his skills came to the fore again in the re-building of Suai in 2000. Check out the photograph of the finished building which is possibly the largest traditional structure in East Timor.
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October 1st, 2009 at 10:48 pm
[...] is the construction Senor Felix Adriano various describes in his interview ( below on video)as the Uma Tradisionale (Traditional House), [...]