Power and intimacy in the Christian Philippines /
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Quezon City :
Ateneo de Manila University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: mountains and plains
- 1. Marriage stories: speaking of reluctance and control
- 2. Kinship and the ritualisation of marriage
- 3. Introduction: healing and the 'people who have nothing'
- 4. Spirit mediums and spirit-companions
- 5. Spirit mediums and seance forms: changing relations to the spirit world
- 6. Coda: the birthday-parties of the spirits
- 7. The living and the dead
- 8. The funeral of the 'dead Christ'
- 9. Kinship, reciprocity and devotions to the saints
- 10. Beauty and the idea of 'America'
- 11. Conclusion: oppression, pity and transformation.