Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, PhilippinesThis 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
Chapter | 2 |
The Manobo Cosmos Kalibutan | 31 |
Chapter 3 | 61 |
The Diwata in the Pantheon of Manobo Supernatural Beings 85 56 | 85 |
Chapter 4 | 140 |
Personal Songs | 243 |
Negotiating Visayanized Public Culture | 279 |
Chapter 7 | 347 |
Notes | 363 |
| 407 | |
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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 called Cebuano Chapter chicken Christian context conversation cosmos culture Dajun dance Delia diwata diya domesticated pigs du-en exchange fieldwork gifts ginhawa Ginu-u Herminia Tumulak households Hu-u human ikew Inggad iyan Juan kagi kagi din kana kandin kenaq kunte-en kuwa living Loreto ma't male elder Manobo language Manobo ritual medium Mindanao mountain myth Narciso Madrid Nekey offerings old woman Panyang patients Pedro Marikit performance person Philippines pity Poblacion polygynous rice ritual séance ritual speech River Sadangay séance si-e si-eni sikan singing spirit skyworld social song speaking spirit familiars spirit helpers story suja supernatural symbolic Tagbanwa tawagenen ted-em town ubag Ubuk Ujahay Ujahay's umagad Vicente Visayan language Visayan spirit wada
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