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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
William Peterson |
ISBN: | 9780824851637 0824851633 |
OCLC Number: | 917888535 |
Description: | x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : 'it's more fun in the Philippines' -- Three Tagalog sinakulo : the repertoire and the scenario -- The body of Christ -- Panata, politics, and the morion of Marinduque -- Dancing natives, dancing nation : from bayan to Bayanihan -- Time and transcendence at Ati-atihan -- Street dance and a bayan-centered framework -- Juana Change : performing the personal and the political. |
Responsibility: | William Peterson. |
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Publisher Synopsis
In Places for Happiness, Peterson centers on an investigation regarding how local psychological, political, and cultural concepts may contribute to the understanding of Philippine performance culture in its complex ontology. . . . the book is a valuable contribution not only to the disciplines of theatre and Philippine studies. Places for Happiness is also valuable for scholars, researchers, and students in other disciplines such as philosophy (especially for those who are into the phenomenology of happiness), anthropology (especially those who are specializing in anthropological linguistics), and psychology (primarily because of Peterson's careful interrogations of the human person's core values vis- -vis performance).-- "Asian Theatre Journal" Peterson's years of fieldwork and intro- duction of Filipino anthropologists, sociologists, and historians to an English-speaking audience make this book useful to a wide range of theatre and performance studies scholars.-- "The Drama Review" Read more...

