Historical Dictionary of the Philippines
Historical Dictionary of the Philippines

Author: Artemio R. Guillermo

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 0810872463

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

Tales in the City Volume III
Tales in the City Volume III

Author: Alokparna Das, Purnima Dixit, Piyush Pratik Mohanty, Valerie Blue Claveria, Leslie Riola, Charles Tomeldan, Satabdi Saha, Dante Villaneuva Aguilar, Kuntala Bhattacharya, Taniya Briana

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published: 2022-11-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9356977550

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“Rural landscapes can give the double illusion of being eternal and newly born. Cities, on the other hand, are marked with specific architecture from specific dates, and this architecture, built by long-vanished others for their own uses, is the shell that we, like hermit crabs, climb into.” ― Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays

Ghostly Horror Tales Filipino Comics
Ghostly Horror Tales Filipino Comics

Author: Biyernes Trese

Publisher: Pinoy Horror

Published: 2008-08-08

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13:

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Ghostly Horror Tales is a premium quality Comics from the Philippines. The comics illustrates and documents real Ghost and supernatural tales from the Philippines. This comics & Magazine also presents real Ghost caught on CAM from readers... As cameras and mobile phone cameras became available to the general public, ghost caught on camera anomalies have been present in amateur photography. The abnormalities represented proof of ghost and spirits. With the advancement of digital camera technology, especially with smart phones, there have been clearer and sharper images of ghosts. Ghost caught on cam is considered paranormal because this phenomenon is unexplained. We have collected real Ghost caught on CAM sent by our readers. We will present them to you for your approval.

Tales from Facebook
Tales from Facebook

Author: Daniel Miller

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0745637876

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Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their users. This book demonstrates that it can be profound. The tales in this book reveal how Facebook can become the means by which people find and cultivate relationships, but can also be instrumental in breaking up marriage. They reveal how Facebook can bring back the lives of people isolated in their homes by illness or age, by shyness or failure, but equally Facebook can devastate privacy and create scandal. We discover why some people believe that the truth of another person lies more in what you see online than face-to-face. We also see how Facebook has become a vehicle for business, the church, sex and memorialisation. After a century in which we have assumed social networking and community to be in decline, Facebook has suddenly hugely expanded our social relationships, challenging the central assumptions of social science. It demonstrates one of the main tenets of anthropology - that individuals have always been social networking sites. This book examines in detail how Facebook transforms the lives of particular individuals, but it also presents a general theory of Facebook as culture and considers the likely consequences of social networking in the future.

Bannermen Tales (Zidishu)
Bannermen Tales (Zidishu)

Author: Elena Suet-Ying Chiu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1684170893

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Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)—a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their circulation and reception into the early twentieth century. With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for evaluating the process of cultural hybridization. To go beyond readily available texts, author Elena Chiu engaged in intensive fieldwork and archival research, examining approximately four hundred hand-copied and printed zidishu texts housed in libraries in Mainland China, Taiwan, Germany, and Japan. Guided by theories of minority literature, cultural studies, and intertextuality, Chiu explores both the Han and Manchu cultures in the Qing dynasty through bannermen tales, and argues that they exemplified elements of Manchu cultural hybridization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries while simultaneously attempting to validate and perpetuate the superiority of Manchu identity. With its original translations, musical score, and numerous illustrations of hand-copied and printed zidishu texts, this study opens a new window into Qing literature and provides a broader basis for evaluating the process of cultural hybridization.