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Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place

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Babaylan Sing Back depicts the embodied voices of Native Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed to have perished during colonial times, or to survive on the margins in the present-day. They are either persecuted as witches and purveyors of superstition, or valorized as symbols of gender equality and anticolonial resistance. Drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and in the Philippine diaspora, Grace Nono's deep engagement with the song and speech of a number of living ritual specialists demonstrates Native historical agency in the 500th year anniversary of the contact between the people of the Philippine Islands and the European colonizers.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4165509
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Year:
2021
Publisher:
Southeast Asia Program Publications
Language:
English
Pages:
252
ISBN 10:
1501760084
ISBN 13:
9781501760112
ISBN:
2021007690,2021007691,9781501760082,9781

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