Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines Paperback / softback
by Fenella (London School of Economics and Political Science) Cannell
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series
Paperback / softback
Description
What kind of reciprocity exists between unequal partners?
How can a 'culture' which makes no attempt to defend unchanging traditions be understood as such?
In the Christian Philippines, inequalities - global and local - are negotiated through idioms of persuasion, reluctance and pity.
Fenella Cannell's study suggests that these are the idioms of a culture which does not need to represent itself as immutable.
Her account of Philippine spirit-mediumship, Catholicism, transvestite beauty contests, and marriage in Bicol calls for a reassessment of our understanding of South-East Asian modernity.
Combining a strong theoretical interest in the anthropology of religion with a broader comparative attention to recent developments in South-East Asian studies, she offers a powerful alternative to existing interpretations of the relationship between culture and tradition in the region and beyond.
This book addresses not only South-East Asianists, but all those with an interest in the anthropology of religion and post-colonial cultures.
Power and Intimacy in the Christian Phillipines has won the Harry J.
Benda prize for 2001.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 1 Maps; 10 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/03/1999
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- ISBN:9780521646222
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:344 pages, 1 Maps; 10 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/03/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521646222
