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Book Life Stories of the Ibaloy from Upper Loacan  Itogon  Philippines

Download or read book Life Stories of the Ibaloy from Upper Loacan Itogon Philippines written by Frédéric Laugrand and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a group of 9 Elders from Loacan share their life stories to Jazil Tamang, Esther Pistola and Gliseria Magapin who interviewed them between 2012 and 2016. The book is the first volume of a series devoted to Ibaloy culture and traditions. It is available in Nabaloy and in English.

Book Seven Life Stories from Upper Loacan

Download or read book Seven Life Stories from Upper Loacan written by Jazil Tamang and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a group of 7 Elders from Upper Loacan share their life stories to Jazil Tamang, Gliseria Magapin, Raymund Apidos, Kim Bulcio and Josie Pangnas who interviewed them in 2018 and 2019. The book is the sixth volume of a series devoted to Ibaloy culture and traditions. It is available in Nabaloy and in English. It is the ninth volume of the Verbatim series.

Book Connecting Life and Death Rituals  Prohibitions and Spirits Ibaloy Perspectives  Itogon  Philippines

Download or read book Connecting Life and Death Rituals Prohibitions and Spirits Ibaloy Perspectives Itogon Philippines written by Laugrand (Ed.) and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the volume 2 of a series dealing with the culture and traditions of the Ibaloy of Upper Loacan (Itogon, Benguet, Philippines). It is available in Nabaloy and in English. Elders share their stories to a group of youngsters who ask them questions on a variety of topics such as rituals, prohibitions and spirits. The book provides the verbatim accounts of these conversations recorded during a workshop that took place at the Senior-Citizen hall in 2017.

Book Five Life Stories from Upper Loacan

Download or read book Five Life Stories from Upper Loacan written by Jazil Tamang and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a group of 5 Elders from Upper Loacan share their life stories to Jazil Tamang, Gliseria Magapin, Raymund Apidos, Kimberly Bulcio and Josie Pangnas who interviewed them in 2018 and 2019. The book is the fifth volume of a series devoted to Ibaloy culture and traditions. It is available in Nabaloy and in English. It is the eighth volume of the Verbatim series.

Book Looking for Signs  Animals  Spirits and Death Rituals Ibaloy Perspectives  Itogon  Philippines

Download or read book Looking for Signs Animals Spirits and Death Rituals Ibaloy Perspectives Itogon Philippines written by Laugrand (Ed.) and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the volume 3 of a series dealing with the culture and traditions of the Ibaloy of Upper Doacan (Itogon, Benguet, Philippines). It is available in Nabaloy and in English. Elders share their stories to a group of youngsters who ask them questions on a variety of topics such as animals, signs, death rituals and spirits. The book provides the verbatim accounts of these discussions recorded during a workshop that took place at the Senior-Citizen hall in 2018.

Book Mapping the Land of Upper Loacan

Download or read book Mapping the Land of Upper Loacan written by Frédéric Laugrand and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the volume 4 of a series dealing with the culture and traditions of the Ibaloy of Upper Doacan (Itogon, Benguet, Philippines). It is available in Nabaloy and in English. Elders share their stories to a group of youngsters who ask them questions on a variety of topics such as the land, trees, plants, rules, incidents, death rituals and spirits. The book provides the verbatim accounts of these discussions recorded during a workshop that took place at the Senior-Citizen hall in 2019.

Book Pigs and Persons in the Philippines

Download or read book Pigs and Persons in the Philippines written by Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ifugao of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, are famous for their extensive system of irrigated rice terraces, and previous anthropological accounts of the Ifugao have stressed their immense importance for social life. This book attempts to "go against the grain" and approach Ifugao society through an often overlooked element, namely their pigs. By a detailed ethnographic description of Ifugao cultural practices related to kinship, animism, prestige, and death, Pigs and Persons in the Philippines shows how pigs are involved in the constitution and re-constitution of relations between humans and between humans and spirits. Remme draws upon theories of relationality, performativity, and assemblages to argue that the exchange and consumption of pig meat have the ontological effect of enacting persons. He also shows how pigs are the prime means of engaging in relations with spirits and argues further that prestige can be understood as a heterogeneous assemblage of relations of which pigs play a central role. While pigs are thus constitutively involved in the enactment of persons, Remme also shows how they are operative in the re-constitution of relations that occurs at death. In documenting these practices, Remme argues for a relational understanding of personhood that goes beyond inter-human relations and includes relations with nonhuman beings, including spirits, and animals.

Book The Handbook of Mummy Studies

Download or read book The Handbook of Mummy Studies written by Dong Hoon Shin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owing to their unique state of preservation, mummies provide us with significant historical and scientific knowledge of humankind’s past. This handbook, written by prominent international experts in mummy studies, offers readers a comprehensive guide to new understandings of the field’s most recent trends and developments. It provides invaluable information on the health states and pathologies of historic populations and civilizations, as well as their socio-cultural and religious characteristics. Addressing the developments in mummy studies that have taken place over the past two decades – which have been neglected for as long a time – the authors excavate the ground-breaking research that has transformed scientific and cultural knowledge of our ancient predecessors. The handbook investigates the many new biotechnological tools that are routinely applied in mummy studies, ranging from morphological inspection and endoscopy to minimally invasive radiological techniques that are used to assess states of preservation. It also looks at the paleoparasitological and pathological approaches that have been employed to reconstruct the lifestyles and pathologic conditions of ancient populations, and considers the techniques that have been applied to enhance biomedical knowledge, such as craniofacial reconstruction, chemical analysis, stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA analysis. This interdisciplinary handbook will appeal to academics in historical, anthropological, archaeological and biological sciences, and will serve as an indispensable companion to researchers and students interested in worldwide mummy studies.

Book Journeys of the Soul

Download or read book Journeys of the Soul written by William D. Wilder and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume six anthropologists deal with a common theme: the many and various rituals surrounding human death. Their ethnographic papers not only testify to the benefits of new and intensive field research on Borneo, they also play to the important theories set out by Robert Hertz on the collective representation of death, an essay which laid the foundations for the analysis of mortuary customs in Borneo, to van Gennep's classic notion of rites of passage, and to more recent anthropological writings".--BOOKJACKET.

Book The Scientific Study of Mummies

Download or read book The Scientific Study of Mummies written by Arthur C. Aufderheide and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Book Social Terrains of Mine Closure in the Philippines

Download or read book Social Terrains of Mine Closure in the Philippines written by Minerva Chaloping March and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and predicated by experiences of mainly mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary planning frameworks and regulatory requirements are well-established. Mine closure planning, well promoted and accepted as good business practice in the global minerals industry, has been primarily technical and precautionary both in approach and focus. Planning, modelling and monitoring strategies incorporate comprehensive and detailed elements such as properties inherent in landforms, climate, geology, flora and fauna, among others. However, locality-based concerns that revolve around resource access and tenure, rights and entitlements tied to locality and indigeneity, labour recruitment, and other non-bio-physical elements are hardly examined. Any mine closure program that omits these elements is deficient and therefore ineffective. Social Terrains of Mine Closure in the Philippines, based on ethnographic research and archival materials, presents the varying experiences of three mines to demonstrate that the mine closure process is an intense locus for competition and compromises among various social actors. This book offers key messages for understanding the complex socio-cultural, economic, political, and business realities that make up the social terrains of mine closure, and will be of great interest to students and researchers in development studies, community development, business studies, anthropology, and sociology. It will also appeal to those working in the global minerals sectors and NGOs that engage in development work and advocacy for responsible mining.

Book Paleoimaging

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald G. Beckett
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2009-09-21
  • ISBN : 1420090739
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Paleoimaging written by Ronald G. Beckett and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical and industrial imaging methods have come to be recognized as powerful tools for documentation and data collection in many nontraditional settings. In Paleoimaging: Field Applications for Cultural Remains and Artifacts, two of the most preeminent experts in the field provide an in-depth examination of a range of imaging techniques and explain how these techniques can be applied to all aspects of forensic and archaeological analysis. The first part of the book examines paleoimaging multimodalities, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each imaging technique in different scenarios. The authors explore photography, conventional radiography, endoscopy, and various forms of computer-based imaging. Next, they present methodological and procedural standards for the various imaging techniques. They also demonstrate how multimodal imaging can assist nondestructive data collection of non-biological cultural artefacts. A final section addresses radiation safety and field safety concerns. Case studies, tables, and templates of forms for documentation of findings enhance the text with practical information. Filled with over 380 images, this book is supplemented with an accompanying downloadable resource in which the authors draw from their global experience in the paleoimaging of cultural remains and artefacts, offering a view of the diverse environments in which field paleoimaging is conducted. The breadth of the authors’ expertise and the rich images contained in the book and downloadable resources make this resource an essential reference for those who seek to explore the mysteries of the past.

Book Death and the Regeneration of Life

Download or read book Death and the Regeneration of Life written by Maurice Bloch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.

Book Gold from the Gods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evelyn Caballero
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Gold from the Gods written by Evelyn Caballero and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunters  Predators and Prey

Download or read book Hunters Predators and Prey written by Frédéric Laugrand and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered ‘prey par excellence’: the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as ‘inua’ (owner) and ‘tarniq’ (shade) over European concepts such as ‘spirit ‘and ‘soul’, the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society.

Book Nabaloi Songs

Download or read book Nabaloi Songs written by Claude Russell Moss and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1922 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knowledge and Passion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1980-03-31
  • ISBN : 9780521295628
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Knowledge and Passion written by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-03-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic interpretation of the life of the Ilongots, a group of 3,500 hunters and horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines, analyzes their social life with reference to their emotional development throughout the life cycle.