Pigs and Persons in the Philippines
Subtitle: Human-Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Rituals
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780739190418
Subjects: Ifugao (philippine people); Swine; Human-animal relationships; Ethnology
Description: "This book examines how pigs are entangled in the constitution of relations between humans and between humans and spirits among the Ifugao of Northern Luzon in the Philippines. The book applies concepts like relational personhood, assemblages, and performativity to argue that persons emerge from relational practices of exchange and sacrifice. It also argues that pigs are constitutively involved in these practices"--