Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
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- Author: Fenella Cannell, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Date Published: March 1999
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- isbn: 9780521646222
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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.
Read more- Original material which is considered innovatory, influential, and pioneering by other specialists in this field
- Draws on and synthesises approaches from British and American anthropology
- Has a much wider scope than most monographs and is elegantly written
Awards
- Power and Intimacy in the Christian Phillipines has won the Harry J. Benda prize given by The Association of Asian Studies for 2001
Reviews & endorsements
'This ethnography by Fenella Cannell is a well-written, well-presented, finely crafted piece of work.' The Journal of Asian Studies
See more reviews'Cannell's book is a most welcome contribution.' Anthropos
'… a meticulous, intricate and thought-provoking ethnographic study …' Aseasuk News
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- Date Published: March 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521646222
- length: 344 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Note on language and names
Introduction: mountains and plains
Part I. Marriage:
1. Marriage stories: speaking of reluctance and control
2. Kinship and the ritualisation of marriage
Part II. Healing and the Spirits:
3. Introduction: healing and the 'people who have nothing'
4. Spirit mediums and spirit-companions
5. Spirit mediums and seance forms: changing relations to the spirit world
6. Coda: the birthday-parties of the spirits
Part III. Saints and the Dead:
7. The living and the dead
8. The funeral of the 'dead Christ'
9. Kinship, reciprocity and devotions to the saints
Part IV. Beauty Contests:
10. Beauty and the idea of 'America'
11. Conclusion: oppression, pity and transformation
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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