Songs and Gifts at the Frontier (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415941242)

This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.

Author: Jose S. Buenconsejo
ISBN-10: 0415941245
ISBN-13: 9780415941242
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2002
Pages: 444
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.08w x 1.22d