Growing Up in a Philippine Barrio

About this book

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.