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Book Values in Philippine Culture and Education

Download or read book Values in Philippine Culture and Education written by Manuel B. Dy and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manuvu  Social Organization

Download or read book Manuvu Social Organization written by E. Arsenio Manuel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study sets out to investigate the social system of a pagan group in central Mindanao which has never attracted attention previously. The intention is to describe the Manuvu' social system as it functions in the ethnographic present and as it has functioned during the recent past (up to and until 1941) in the important aspects of its social (family system and kinship system), economic, ritualistic, legal, and tribal) organizations. These aspects are studied primarily to formulate general statements concerning the nature of Manuvu' society and regularities in its structure and development by following the concept dynamically through time." --from the Introduction

Book The Tasaday Controversy

Download or read book The Tasaday Controversy written by Thomas N. Headland and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dream Jungle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica Hagedorn
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2004-09-28
  • ISBN : 0142001090
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Dream Jungle written by Jessica Hagedorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Jessica Hagedorn's most daring novels—“a deft and complex tale of corruption, fealty, and integrity” (The Baltimore Sun) In a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, two seemingly unrelated events occur: the discovery of an ancient lost tribe living in a remote mountainous area and the arrival of a celebrity-studded, American film crew, there to make an epic Vietnam War movie. But the lost tribe may be a clever hoax and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and ego. As the consequences of these events play out, four unforgettable characters—a wealthy, iconoclastic playboy; a woman ensnared in the sex industry; a Filipino-American writer; and a jaded actor—find themselves drawn irrevocably together in this lavish, sensual portrait of a nation in crisis.

Book Search for a Rational Ethic

Download or read book Search for a Rational Ethic written by George D. Snell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge we have in great abundance, and enough exists if wisely used to solve many of the most threatening problems of humanity. The key word is wisely; wisdom we sorely lack. There is a special role to be played by distinguished scholars who, having passed the most challenging tests of their specialized fields, are willing to confront the central questions of human existence. What is life (where is the boundary between life and non-life)? Why do we behave as we do? What is the meaning of human existence? Where do ethical precepts come from? What should be the goals of civilization, beyond mere survival and hedonic reward? These are the kinds of topics George Snell boldly addresses in Search for a Rational Ethic. Scientific knowledge is especially important in any such endeavor, because we are in the golden age of science, and scientific research increasingly impinges on the domain of philosophy. Indeed, it is not too much to say that philosophy has consisted to a large extent of failed neurological models. Much of its investigation pivots on how the mind works, that is, to what extent the mind can perceive reality, how concepts are formed, what is the source of moral reasoning, and so forth. In creasingly, scientific research is leading us to the physical basis of mind. If we are ever to create the correct neurological model, it will be through science.

Book Land Tenure Stories in Central Mindanao

Download or read book Land Tenure Stories in Central Mindanao written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines

Download or read book The Bisayan Dialects of the Philippines written by R. David Paul Zorc and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tropical Rain Forest

Download or read book The Tropical Rain Forest written by Marius Jacobs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.

Book The Language of Hunter Gatherers

Download or read book The Language of Hunter Gatherers written by Tom Güldemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

Book The Austronesian Languages

Download or read book The Austronesian Languages written by R. A. Blust and published by Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu. This book was released on 2009 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

Download or read book Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia written by Karl L. Hutterer and published by U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH EAST ASIAN STUDI. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of “human ecology.” Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems.

Book U S  Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines

Download or read book U S Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines written by E.San Juan, Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book offers the first history of the Filipinos in the United States, focusing on the significance of the Moro people's struggle for self-determination.

Book Discovery of the Tasaday

Download or read book Discovery of the Tasaday written by John Nance and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Catholic World

Download or read book New Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Space and Place

Download or read book Space and Place written by Yi-fu Tuan and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Feelings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780767415897
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Beyond Feelings written by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical reasoning successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking world through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers; Part IV offers a selection of contemporary issues that invite students to practice their skills.