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Author Nono, Grace, author.

Title Babaylan sing back : Philippine shamans and voice, gender, and place / Grace Nono
Published Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary "An ethnography of a number of Native Philippine ritual specialists' voices in song and speech, drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and in the Philippine diaspora spanning thirty years and written in conversation with selected voice, gender, and decolonization discourses. Asserts Native historical agency amidst embattled conditions on the 500th year anniversary of the histories of Philippine colonization"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2021)
Subject Shamanism -- Philippines
Shamans -- Philippines
Women shamans -- Philippines
Women healers -- Philippines
Women mystics -- Philippines
Rites and ceremonies -- Philippines.
Oral tradition -- Philippines
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
Oral tradition
Rites and ceremonies
Shamanism
Shamans
Women healers
Women mystics
Women shamans
Philippines
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021007691
ISBN 9781501760112
1501760114
1501760106
9781501760105