Babaylan sing back : Philippine shamans and voice, gender, and place / Grace Nono.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nono, Grace, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shamanism--Philippines.

Shamanism.

Shamans--Philippines.

Shamans.

Women shamans--Philippines.

Women shamans.

Women healers--Philippines.

Women healers.

Healers--Philippines.

Healers.

Women mystics--Philippines.

Women mystics.

Mystics--Philippines.

Mystics.

Rites and ceremonies--Philippines.

Rites and ceremonies.

Oral tradition--Philippines.

Oral tradition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Who Sings? A Baylan's Embodied Voice and its Relations

Shifting Voices and Malleable Bodies

Song Travels : Mumbaki Mobility and the Relationality of Place.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 2, 2022).

ISBN:

9781501760082

1501760084

9781501760105

1501760106

OCLC:

1245251123