Ethnography in the Raw : : Life in a Luzon Village / / Brian Moeran.

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles northeast of Manila. The book links detailed descriptions of his...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (298 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Text
  • Prologue
  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. People
  • 3. The Barangay
  • 4. Buying a Car
  • 5. Kinship Terms and Names
  • 6. Tying the Knot
  • 7. Family
  • 8. For Richer, For Poorer
  • 9. Chaos and Laughter
  • 10. Language Use
  • 11. New Year’s Eve
  • 12. Mobile Phones and Social Media
  • 13. Irrigation
  • 14. Rice and Classification
  • 15. Going for a Walk
  • 16. A Pillow Tree
  • 17. Actually
  • 18. Spirits
  • 19. Birthday Parties
  • 20. No Money, No Hangover
  • 21. Wiping and Weeping
  • 22. Circumcision
  • 23. Blackness
  • 24. Japan
  • 25. The Author of Life
  • 26. Oh, George!
  • 27. OFWs
  • 28. Of Cocks and Men
  • 29. Religious Side Bets
  • 30. The Foreigner at Large
  • 31. She Love You, She Crazy
  • 32. Valentine’s Day
  • 33. Crispin, Caesar and Cecilio
  • 34. Drugs
  • 35. Cementeries
  • 36. Security Guards
  • 37. Elections
  • 38. Beliefs
  • 39. A Shotgun Wedding
  • 40. Feria
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index