Author: Cannell, Fenella
Title: Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2001). Reprint. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xxvi,312 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG. ¶ Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 109. ["What kind of reciprocity exists between unequal partners? How can a ‘culture’ which makes no attempt to defend unchanging traditions be understood as such? In the Christian Philippines, inequalities - global and local - are negotiated through idioms of persuasion, reluctance and pity. Fenella Cannell’s study suggests that these are the idioms of a culture which does not need to represent itself as immutable. Her account of Philippine spirit-mediumship, Catholicism, transvestite beauty contests, and marriage in Bicol calls for a reassessment of our understanding of South-East Asian modernity. Combining a strong theoretical interest in the anthropology of religion with a broader comparative attention to recent developments in South-East Asian studies, she offers a powerful alternative to existing interpretations of the relationship between culture and tradition in the region and beyond. This book addresses not only South-East Asianists, but all those with an interest in the anthropology of religion and post- colonial cultures. Power and Intimacy in the Christian Phillipines has won the Harry J. Benda prize for 2001" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: Philippines, Social Anthropology, Religion, Christian, Christianity, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnography, Southeast Asia