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Ethnography in the Raw: Life in a Luzon Village

By Brian Moeran

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781800730755
DOI
10.1515/9781800730755
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4146865 bytes)
Pages
298\298
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:58:07

Description

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles northeast of Manila. The book links detailed descriptions of his Philippine family with cultural practices such as circumcision, marriage and cockfights combined with theoretical musings on the concepts of sacrifice, social exchange, patron-client relations, food, and religious symbolism. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

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