Verbal arts in Philippine indigenous communities : poetics, society, and history /
Coben, Herminia Meñez.
Verbal arts in Philippine indigenous communities : poetics, society, and history / Herminia Meñez Coben. - x, 392 pages 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examines the centrality of verbal arts in social life and the dynamic roles of verbal artists as religious and political leaders, as guardians of tradition, as well as agents of cultural change. The subtitle highlights its emphasis on poetics and social change, poetics and gender politics, the poetics of violence, and of pacifism, tropes in social and historical contexts, and on colonialism, ethnic identity, and political power. (Source: http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneopress)
9789715505833
Ethnography--Philippines.
Indigenous peoples--Philippines
Indigenous peoples--Philippines
Indigenous peoples--Philippines.
GN 671.P6 / C54 2009
Verbal arts in Philippine indigenous communities : poetics, society, and history / Herminia Meñez Coben. - x, 392 pages 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examines the centrality of verbal arts in social life and the dynamic roles of verbal artists as religious and political leaders, as guardians of tradition, as well as agents of cultural change. The subtitle highlights its emphasis on poetics and social change, poetics and gender politics, the poetics of violence, and of pacifism, tropes in social and historical contexts, and on colonialism, ethnic identity, and political power. (Source: http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneopress)
9789715505833
Ethnography--Philippines.
Indigenous peoples--Philippines
Indigenous peoples--Philippines
Indigenous peoples--Philippines.
GN 671.P6 / C54 2009
