Babaylan Sing Back
Download or Read eBook Babaylan Sing Back PDF written by Grace Nono and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Grace Nono |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2021-11-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781501760105 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1501760106 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Babaylan Sing Back by : Grace Nono
Book excerpt: 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 purveyors of superstition, or valorized as symbols of gender equality and anticolonial resistance. Drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and in the Philippine diaspora, Grace Nono's deep engagement with the song and speech of a number of living ritual specialists demonstrates Native historical agency in the 500th year anniversary of the contact between the people of the Philippine Islands and the European colonizers.
