Fenella Cannell

Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines

Herausgeber: Fortes, Meyer; Leach, Edmund

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An anthropological study of everyday life in the lowland Philippines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780521646222
• ISBN-10: 0521646227
• Artikelnr.: 22289677

Inhaltsangabe

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.