In this book, Christine Muyco provides us with a magic key to enter a remarkable world where music, dance, and gesture are woven together to create a fabric of human meaning. - Elena Rivera Mirano
These essays form a conjectural historiography of how aspects of Philippine media shape and are shaped by various political, economic, and cultural infrastructures. As a whole, the collection renders
"This pioneering book is an empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and insightful ethnographic account of work regimes in call centers ... It is a sophisticated discussion of intricately connec
In 1875 Jacob Adolf Bruno Wiselius, Controller with the Dutch Colonial Administration on Java, visited Manila and the neighboring Laguna province. Shortly after, he published a book in Holland on his
These articles interrogate diverse issues in Philippine cultural history: the place of Nick Joaquin in the nation's historiography; the debate on the class position of Andres Bonifacio and the revolut
Primitivo “Tibo” Mijares was Ferdinand Marcos’s prized “media czar” and chief propagandist until his defection in 1975. In 1972, Tibo moved to the Marcos-controlled Daily Express and assumed the pres
The Philippines' Cordilera mountains of Northern Luzon have long been known as home to the peoples termed Igorots. Throughout the Spanish era, however, familiarity among highland peoples was frequentl
This work surveys the social, economic, and cultural contexts that have contributed to the recent organizing and performance of clan reunions among Kankanaeys and, conversely, the actions that these k
These collected essays depart from the usual narrative of the revolution as a progressive event leading to the establishment of a republic. They depict how separation from "Mother Spain" was imaginati
The Friend Zone isn't just one uniform assembly line of people with the 'just a friend' label stamped on their foreheads... 'friend' itself is an elastic term that can be applied to family members, cl
