Manobo Dreams in Arakan

Manobo Dreams in Arakan
Author: Karl Gaspar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Manobos (Philippine people)
ISBN: 9789715506298

This is Karl Gaspar's latest book, a scholar-cum-activist's account of a familiar and recurring episode in Mindanawon history, the struggle over the Lumad's ancestral lands. When the Manobos in Arakan Valley had to confront the colonization of their lifeworld and the potential loss of their homeland to logging concessionaires, a group of missionaries, community organizers and theater workers joined forces with them to put up a truly collective resistance and in so doing affirmed their own cultural identities

Dictionary of Languages

Dictionary of Languages
Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1408102145

Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.

Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Oil and the Propensity to Armed Struggle in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Author: Aderoju Oyefusi
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Civil Conflict
ISBN:

This paper attempts to explain the determinants of the propensity to armed struggle and the probability of participation by individuals in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using primary (micro) data. While grievance appears to be pervasive among individuals and communities in the region and can be systematically explained, neither the grievance level nor its commonly cited causal factors appear to be strong enough to create a disposition toward armed rebellion. Rather, factors that reduce the opportunity cost and risk of participation or increase the perceived benefits appear to be more important. The study identifies three of these factors that are amenable to the policymaker's (government's) control as income level, educational attainment, and government presence.

The Philippine Archipelago

The Philippine Archipelago
Author: Yves Boquet
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 856
Release: 2017-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319519263

This book presents an updated view of the Philippines, focusing on thematic issues rather than a description region by region. Topics include typhoons, population growth, economic difficulties, agrarian reform, migration as an economic strategy, the growth of Manila, the Muslim question in Mindanao, the South China Sea tensions with China and the challenges of risk, vulnerability and sustainable development.

A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability

A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability
Author: Jojo M. Fung
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319510223

This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the common good of the indigenous communities and the regenerative power of mother earth. This everyday mysticism of the world as spirited and sacred serves to re-enchant a world disillusioned by the unsustainability of destructive economic systems that have spawned the current ecological crises. Author Jojo Fung offers insight from his lived-experience and this book represents his effort to correlate the indigenous spirit world with Catholic Pneumatology and articulate the activity of God’s Spirit as the Spirit of Sacred Sustainability.