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 | 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,...
by Omehra | Mar 24, 2013 | Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Cultural Studies, Ecofeminism
by Gloria Feman Orenstein NOTE: This extract is included as an essential reading for transforming the world. You are requested to purchase the book yourself as it is, without question, essential reading material. Gloria Feman Orenstein is Professor in Comparative...
by Omehra | Jan 11, 2013 | Books, Talks, Papers, CDs, Websites, Cultural Studies
by Jonas Baes In 2002, groups of disparate “indigenous” peoples from the Southern Tagalog region of the Philippines sought refuge somewhere in the Cavite province to escape escalating armed conflict in their localities. Among these groups of people were...
