by Omehra | Jun 24, 2013 | Babaylan and Community Healing, Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites
by Luisa A. Igloria Review of Song of the Babaylan: Living Voices, Medicines, Spiritualities of Philippine Ritualist-Oralist Healers by Grace Nono (Institute of Spirituality in Asia, 2013) In the “Invocations” chapter of her newest book, Song of the Babaylan: Living...
by Omehra | Jun 24, 2013 | Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Cultural Studies, Historic Context
by Narcisa Paredes-Canilao, University of the Philippines Baguio and Maria Ana Babaran-Diaz, University of the Philippines Baguio http://www.discourseunit.com/arcp10/Philippines%20I%20765-783.pdf Abstract Sikolohiyang Pilipino, or efforts of Filipino psychologists and...
by Omehra | May 10, 2013 | Cultural Studies
by S. Lily Mendoza Abstract In “Educating Savages,” intercultural communication scholar Richard Morris notes with poignancy that even when Native Americans realize their “true” history, there is in such realization “a sense of curiosity, even a sense of loss, but not...
by Omehra | Mar 25, 2013 | Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Cultural Studies, Filipino Psychology, Kapwa and Other Indigenous and Filipino Values
By Mila D. Aguilar, October 5, 2000 Gibson, Thomas. Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands. London: The Athlone Press, 1986. Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands, published as Monograph on Social Anthropology No 57 in 1986, was, in its original...
by Omehra | Mar 25, 2013 | Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Cultural Studies, Mythmaking, Studies on Shamanism
by Stanley Krippner Abstract: Shamanic practices provide a channel for basic human abilities to understand the world, describe this with language, and manage our knowledge of the limits of our lives. One expression of this is the shaman’s function as mythmaker,...