Meņez, Herminia Q.

Explorations in Philippine folklore - xiii, 159 pages

Includes bibliographical references (pages [146]-154 and index.

The art and language of Manila's jeepney drivers The Philippine folk epic and multicultural education Female warriors in Philippine oral epics The Philippine folktale hero Juan Tamad The performance of folk narrative in California's Filipino communities Mythology and the "Ingkanato" syndrome The shaman and the warrior in Isneg society The viscera-sucker and the politics of gender Talismanic magic and political leadership Female victimization in Philippine balladry The ballad of domestic tragedies and applied folklore Filipino American erotica and the ethnography of a folkloric event

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Folklore--Philippines

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