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Power and intimacy in the Christian Philippines
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- Creator
- Fenella Cannell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xxvi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521641470, 0521641470, 9780521646222, 0521646227
- OCLC
- ocm39108788
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-306) and index.
- Marriage stories: speaking of reluctance and control -- Kinship and the ritualisation of marriage -- Introduction: healing and the 'people who have nothing' -- Spirit mediums and spirit-companions -- Spirit mediums and seance forms: changing relations to the spirit world -- Coda: the birthday-parties of the spirits -- The living and the dead -- The funeral of the 'dead Christ' -- Kinship, reciprocity and devotions to the saints -- Beauty and the idea of 'America' -- Conclusion: oppression pity and transformation