Power and intimacy in the Christian Philippines
By: Fenella Cannell.
Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Manila
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Philippines -- Social life and customs.; Philippines -- Religious life and customs.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with Cambridge University Press"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Marriage stories: speaking of reluctance and control; title: Kinship and the ritualisation of marriage; title: Introduction: healing and the 'people who have nothing'; title: Spirit mediums and spirit-companions; title: Spirit mediums and seance forms: changing relations to the spirit world; title: Coda: the birthday-parties of the spirits; title: The living and the dead; title: The funeral of the 'dead Christ'; title: Kinship, reciprocity and devotions to the saints; title: Beauty and the idea of 'America'; title: Conclusion: oppression pity and transformation.