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Shamanism, Catholicism, and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521-1685
When colonizers from the West came to the Philippines, they brought with them successively different views of what constituted "good" and "bad" women. Caught in this series of re-definitions were the female shamans, who fell from the highest prestige to the designation of "witch." Brewer (religion and construction of gender, Murdoch U.) examines how religion, ideology, and...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
September 1st 2004
by Ashgate Publishing
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Feminist scholar trying to fill in historical gaps created by economy of historians and the bias of first hand observers. A real nail-biter! Her essential argument is that the active repression of female shamans & animist practices had far larger effects on gender relations and the fundamental political structure of barangay communities than accounted for in almost all historic accounts.
This is most interesting the closer Brewer sticks and enlivens primary documents. I wider reading of Animi...more
This is most interesting the closer Brewer sticks and enlivens primary documents. I wider reading of Animi...more
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