TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coben, Herminia Meñez.
TI  - Verbal arts in Philippine indigenous communities: poetics, society, and history 
SN  - 9789715505833
AV  - GN 671.P6 C54 2009
PY  - 2009///];copyright 2009
CY  - Quezon City
PB  - Ateneo de Manila University Press
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Indigenous peoples
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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)
ER  -