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Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines is a remarkable document. Any serious scholar of Philippine ethnography or Southeast Asian ethnomusicology will find this to be a necessary addition to a library..
–Journal of Asian Studies, J. Joseph Errington, February 2004
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This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.
Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines is a remarkable document. Any serious scholar of Philippine ethnography or Southeast Asian ethnomusicology will find this to be a necessary addition to a library..
–Journal of Asian Studies, J. Joseph Errington, February 2004
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This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.
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Reflecting on his journey across the rivers of Agusan Valley almost a century ago, the American colonial worker, John Garvan, appended in his monograph The Manobos of Mindanao a report on a method of converting the non-Moslem natives of Eastern Mindanao Island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fowl waving, cooked food offerings, aku lagi, kad man, rattan poles, unrounded vocoid, ritual interpreter, ritual excerpt, officiating medium, fieldwork guide, ritual séances, betel nut quids, spirit maiden, hybrid ritual, coconut toddy, terrorist dissidents, spirit familiars, commensal meal, coconut wine, syncretic ritual, betel chew, mediating substances, ritual sponsors, betel quids, mythic mountain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pedro Marikit, Asuncion Marikit, Narciso Madrid, Herminia Tumulak, Delia Pacis, Agusan del Sur, Christian God, Conversation Medium, Panyang Madrid, Agusanen Manobos, Zone Three, Antonio Madrid, Nueva Gracia, Brother Winnie, Christian Manobos, Flora Madrid, Miguel Antas, Injape's Visayan, Philippine Independent Church, Visayan God, Zone Four, John Garvan, Spanish Jesuits, Poblacion of Loreto, Roman Catholic New!
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Reflecting on his journey across the rivers of Agusan Valley almost a century ago, the American colonial worker, John Garvan, appended in his monograph The Manobos of Mindanao a report on a method of converting the non-Moslem natives of Eastern Mindanao Island. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fowl waving, cooked food offerings, aku lagi, kad man, rattan poles, unrounded vocoid, ritual interpreter, ritual excerpt, officiating medium, fieldwork guide, ritual séances, betel nut quids, spirit maiden, hybrid ritual, coconut toddy, terrorist dissidents, spirit familiars, commensal meal, coconut wine, syncretic ritual, betel chew, mediating substances, ritual sponsors, betel quids, mythic mountain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pedro Marikit, Asuncion Marikit, Narciso Madrid, Herminia Tumulak, Delia Pacis, Agusan del Sur, Christian God, Conversation Medium, Panyang Madrid, Agusanen Manobos, Zone Three, Antonio Madrid, Nueva Gracia, Brother Winnie, Christian Manobos, Flora Madrid, Miguel Antas, Injape's Visayan, Philippine Independent Church, Visayan God, Zone Four, John Garvan, Spanish Jesuits, Poblacion of Loreto, Roman Catholic New!
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- Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures (Asian American History and Culture) by Vicente L. Rafael on 5 pages
- The Performance of Healing by Carol Laderman on 4 pages
- Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael Taussig on 4 pages
- Symbolic Exchange and Death (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Professor Jean Baudrillard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts by Professor James C. Scott in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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