...Oona Paredes Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place . By Grace Nono . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2021 . xi, 239 pp. ISBN: 9781501760112 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Given the title of this book and its well-known...

...Michael Cullinane Babaylanism in Negros: 1896–1907 . By Evelyn Tan Cullamar . Quezon City, Phils. : New Day Publishers , 1986 . xii, 119 pp. $8.50(paper). (Distributed in the U.S. by the Cellar Bookshop, Detroit, Mich.) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988...

... Antonio Babaylanism in Negros: 1896-1907. By EVELYN T A N CULLAMAR. Quezon City, Phils.: New Day Publishers, 1986. xii, 119 pp. $8.5O(paper). (Distributed in the U.S. by the Cellar Bookshop, Detroit, Mich.) Babaylanism in Negros is an effort to reconstruct the history of a significant socioreligious...

.... Colorums in the Tagalog provinces, Guardias de Honor in Pangasinan, Babaylanes in Negros, and Pulahanes in Samar evolved Utopian ideals of their own and proved equally antagonistic to governments controlled by Spaniards, Americans, or socially prominent Filipinos. The spiritual character of the militant...

... Taste," for the largest Philippine newspaper. She wrote regularly for other journals and publications as well. She was also a pioneer in founding academic groups on culture and the arts. She cofounded the Babaylan Theater Group with Nicanor Tiongson and was one of the original founders of the Cultural...

... columns in Philippine journalism, titled "In Good Taste," for the largest Philippine newspaper. She wrote regularly for other journals and publications as well. She was also a pioneer in founding academic groups on culture and the arts. She cofounded the Babaylan Theater Group with Nicanor Tiongson...

...). This religion has incorporated many aspects of other religions, mostly from Catholicism. I see an alternative viewpoint. The leaders, yesterday and today, are women not because of feminism, but because in the babaylan the leaders of the old tribal religions were women. Finally, Unconventional Sisterhood...

... an alternative viewpoint. The leaders, yesterday and today, are women not because of feminism, but because in the babaylan the leaders of the old tribal religions were women. Finally, Unconventional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines makes a contribution toward filling the gap...

... significance of the babaylan (shaman or spirit medium) figure. Its primary focus, however, is Philippine medicinal plants. Planta argues that traditional medicine has undergone “a process of accretion” (p. xxii) whereby knowledge of materia medica in particular has gradually increased over time while...

..." the peasants on the haciendas, the foot the West, these authors offer a healthy diversity of soldiers, and the remote mountaineers who joined perspective to the field of Philippine history, the Babaylanes. Indeed, Romero's own explana- besides shedding new light on specific events and tion about these latter...

..., the foot the West, these authors offer a healthy diversity of soldiers, and the remote mountaineers who joined perspective to the field of Philippine history, the Babaylanes. Indeed, Romero's own explana- besides shedding new light on specific events and tion about these latter people proves unconvincing...

... types. In the Philippines, before the Catholic conversion, there were babaylan, or “effeminate/transvestite” male priests, who in one area in the south were felicitously called labia (Johnson, Beauty and Power , 26–27). 29 Davies, Gender Diversity in Indonesia , 178. 28 Peletz...

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