Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Babaylan sing back

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Grace Nono

Sub title

Philippine shamans and voice, gender, and place

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

Target audience

adult

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