IN Redontena, Adonara, like most villages in East Flores and the Lamaholot cultural area, the living and the dead peacefully coexist. Those who have passed on are buried in the vicinity of their loved one’s homes.

In Adonara, Catholics and Muslims too live, die, and coexist peacefully. By a house, in front of a small mosque, lay the graves of a married couple, surrounded by a short fence and a tin roof. On the left, the wife’s g