The Land of GoldIn the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor Leste, the disturbing events of the twenty four year long Indonesian occupation are rarely articulated in narratives of suffering. Instead, the highlanders emphasize the significance of their return to the sacred land of the ancestors, a place where "gold" is abundant and life is thought to originate. On one hand, this collective amnesia is due to villagers' exclusion from contemporary