F. Landa Jocano

This book is a collection of the various Philippine deities, pantheons, myths and tales of wonder grouped under a few large headings and strung together with a minimum of unobtrusive commentary by an outstanding Filipino scholar, Dr. F. Landa Jocano. This book is designed as an introduction to give a general understanding of this expansive and often confusing topic.The stories are drawn both from previously published materials and from Dr. Jocano’s own field research.

'This book is the revised and expanded version of Philippine Prehistory: An Anthropological Overview. Many new archaeological materials have been recovered since its publication in 1975, requiring changes in the earlier descriptions and interpretations of Philippine prehistoric society and culture." -- www.kabayancentral.com

This book is about the commonly shared and traditionally established system of values underlying Filipino behavior.

F. Landa Jocano combines the methods of sociology and anthropological analyses in this piercing record of a district of slum dwellers in Manila to draw out a full-fleshed portrait of life in the slum.

This book is about the study of traditional Filipino kinship and family organization. It puts together available ethnographic materials in an attempt at generalizing about this aspect of the Filipino social system. It is descriptive in approach.

This book is about the concept of worldview in Filipino culture. It describes worldview in the context of the local knowledge Filipinos, particularly the rural villagers from whom the ethnographic materials for this purpose were gathered, have of their surrounding world.

"This book is written with two purposes in mind. One is to present an ethnographic picture of folk medicine among Tagalog-speaking Filipino peasants in the municipality of Bay, Laguna Province, Philippines. The other is to provide health innovators with a case study on how peasants meet their medical needs." - from the Introduction

Growing Up in a Philippine Barrion is a detailed ethnography of life in a barrio on the island of Panay, one of the Bisayas of the central Philippines. Written by a native of the Philippines, it is an analysis of education in the broadest sense - as socialization and enculturation rather than formal instruction in schools. The author also provides an analysis of kinship and of social relations in Malirbog, moving from family and household to the wider circle of kin and, finally, to the sanctions underlying he social order in the form of value orientations. The case study ends with analyses of the supernatural world and the treatment of death and burial, showing how they are aspects of culture learned by children who are present at all the important events and who are taught to fear supernatural beings as a means of social control.

This work offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the kinship system and social organization of the Sulod.

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