Babaylan Sing Back : : Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place / / Grace Nono.

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 purveyor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Who Sings? A Baylan’s Embodied Voice and its Relations
  • 2. Shifting Voices and Malleable Bodies
  • 3. Song Travels: Mumbaki Mobility and the Relationality of Place
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index