Songs and Gifts at the Frontier
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0415941245
ISBN-13
9780415941242
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 13th, 2002
Print length
444 Pages
Weight
726 grams
Product Classification:
Theory of music & musicologyMusic: styles & genresPhysical anthropology
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In the search for the social meaning of song, this book connects the performativity of ritual song to important cultural domains such as political economy and history.
This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.
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