Babaylan Sing Back
Babaylan Sing Back

Author: Grace Nono

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1501760114

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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.

Profiles in Cultural Evolution
Profiles in Cultural Evolution

Author: A. Terry Rambo

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 0915703238

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Presenting diverse viewpoints and topics, this collection includes the following sections:Part I presents a background on the study of cultural evolution. Part II deals with the evolution of complex societies in the tropics of South America. Part III discusses stage sequences and directionality in cultural evolution. Part IV examines the role of prime movers in cultural evolution. Part V discusses diversity and change.