"An ethnography of a number of Native Philippine ritual specialists' voices in song and speech, drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and in the Philippine diaspora spanning thirty years and written in conversation with selected voice, gender, and decolonization discourses. Asserts Native historical agency amidst embattled conditions on the 500th

The first anthology dedicated solely to the writing of Filipinas and Filipina Americans to be published in the United States.

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Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island archipelago has been at the center of global trade flows. And from its status as the main base of Spain's Pacific galleon trade to its conquest centuries later by late-arriving imperial powers like the United States

This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial,