Barangay

Barangay
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Publisher : Ateneo University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9715501354
ISBN-13 : 9789715501354
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Barangay by : William Henry Scott

Barangay presents a sixteenth-century Philippine ethnography. Part One describes Visayan culture in eight chapters on physical appearance, food and farming, trades and commerce, religion, literature and entertainment, natural science, social organization, and warfare. Part Two surveys the rest of the archipelago from south to north.

The Malay World of Southeast Asia

The Malay World of Southeast Asia
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Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9789971988364
ISBN-13 : 9971988364
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Malay World of Southeast Asia by : Patricia Lim Pui Huen

Over 5,000 entries arranged in four parts. Part I comprises reference and general works to provide a guide to information on Southeast Asia. Part II provides the setting of space and time. Part III features the people and Part IV the many facets of culture and society — language; ideas, beliefs, values; institutions; creative expression; and social and cultural change. Within each section, the arrangement is geographical, beginning with Southeast Asia as a whole followed by the various countries in alphabetical order.

Philippine Social History

Philippine Social History
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Publisher : Ateneo University Press
Total Pages : 498
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9715502792
ISBN-13 : 9789715502795
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Philippine Social History by : Alfred W. McCoy

The Austronesian Languages

The Austronesian Languages
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Publisher : Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Total Pages : 864
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105132779526
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Austronesian Languages by : R. A. Blust

The Jama Mapun

The Jama Mapun
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015013127678
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Jama Mapun by : Eric S. Casino

Historical Dictionary of the Philippines

Historical Dictionary of the Philippines
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 653
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ISBN-10 : 9780810872462
ISBN-13 : 0810872463
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Philippines by : Artemio R. Guillermo

The Historical Dictionary of the Philippines, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Feasts

Feasts
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 446
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ISBN-10 : 9780817356415
ISBN-13 : 081735641X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Feasts by : Michael Dietler

In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.

Inscrutable Belongings

Inscrutable Belongings
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 445
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ISBN-10 : 9781503605930
ISBN-13 : 1503605930
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Inscrutable Belongings by : Stephen Hong Sohn

Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including Russell Leong's "Camouflage," Lydia Kwa's Pulse, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters, and Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift. Despite many antagonistic forces, these works' protagonists achieve a revolutionary form of narrative centrality through the defiant act of speaking out, recounting their "survival plots," and enduring to the very last page. These feats are made possible through their construction of alternative social structures Sohn calls "inscrutable belongings." Collectively, the texts that Sohn examines bring to mind foundational struggles for queer Asian North Americans (and other socially marginalized groups) and confront a broad range of issues, including interracial desire, the AIDS/HIV epidemic, transnational mobility, and postcolonial trauma. In these texts, Asian North American queer people are often excluded from normative family structures and must contend with multiple histories of oppression, erasure, and physical violence, involving homophobia, racism, and social death. Sohn's work makes clear that for such writers and their imagined communities, questions of survival, kinship, and narrative development are more than representational—they are directly tied to lived experience.