Songs and Gifts at the FrontierThis book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 The Manobo Cosmos Kalibutan | 31 |
Chapter 3 The Diwata in the Pantheon of Manobo Supernatural Beings | 85 |
Chapter 4 The Burning Panubadtubad Speech | 147 |
Chapter 5 Personal Songs | 243 |
Negotiating a Visayanized Public Culture | 279 |
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Agusan del Sur Agusan River Agusan Valley ajaw amigu animal sacrifice apuq Asuncion Marikit audience baby bagani barrio bata betel nuts betel quids blood body brother bujag Butu-an called Cebuano Chapter chicken Christian context conversation cosmos culture Dajun dance Delia diwata diya domesticated pigs du-en exchange gifts ginhawa Ginu-u Herminia Tumulak households Hu-u human ikew inajew ritual Inggad iyan Juan kagi kagi din kana kandin kenaq kunte-en kuwa living Loreto magical male elder Manobo language Manobo ritual medium Mindanao mountain myth Narciso Madrid Nekey offerings old woman patients Pedro Marikit performance person Philippines pity Poblacion polygynous rice ritual séance ritual speech sacrifice Sadangay séance si-e si-eni sikan singing spirit skyworld social song speaking spirit familiars spirit helpers story suja supernatural symbolic Tagbanwa ted-em town ubag Ubuk Ujahay Ujahay’s umagad Vicente Visayan language Visayan spirit wada