Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines

Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines

作者:Fenella Cannell

出版社:Cambridge University Press

出版年:1999-4

ISBN:9780521646222

所属分类:行业好书

书刊介绍

内容简介

The lowland Philippines, in contrast to the apparently "exotic", "tribal" areas, has for many years been thought of as a strangely Westernized place, without a cultural life of its own. This innovative and important book shows that this perception is a myth, which reflects our own obsessions with defining culture and identity as something "unchanging." Through an absorbing account of arranged marriages, miraculous saint cults, spirit mediumship and gay beauty contests, the author describes the unexpectedness of daily life in rural Bicol and the resilience and imagination of the Filipino poor.

作品目录

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Note on language and names
Introduction: mountains and plains
Part I. Marriage:
1. Marriage stories: speaking of reluctance and control
2. Kinship and the ritualisation of marriage
Part II. Healing and the Spirits:
3. Introduction: healing and the 'people who have nothing'
4. Spirit mediums and spirit-companions
5. Spirit mediums and seance forms: changing relations to the spirit world
6. Coda: the birthday-parties of the spirits
Part III. Saints and the Dead:
7. The living and the dead
8. The funeral of the 'dead Christ'
9. Kinship, reciprocity and devotions to the saints
Part IV. Beauty Contests:
10. Beauty and the idea of 'America'
11. Conclusion: oppression, pity and transformation
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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