Waiting for Mariang Makiling

Waiting for Mariang Makiling
Author: Resil B. Mojares
Publisher: Ateneo University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789715504225

This is an exploration of Philippine cultural history. It presents a diverse range of texts including: the legend of a mountain goddess, Pigafetta's discovery account of the Philippines, the life of a 17th-century Christian convert and the foundation narrative of a Marian shrine.

Philippine Folk Literature

Philippine Folk Literature
Author: Damiana L. Eugenio
Publisher: UP Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9789715425360

This anthology presents a bird's-eye view of the whole range of Philippine folk literature.

Mariang Makiling

Mariang Makiling
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1988
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9789711211530

Relates how Maria, the nymph who lived on beautiful Mount Makiling, came to put a curse on the people who venerated her.

Treading Through

Treading Through
Author: Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz
Publisher: UP Press
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9789715425094

"This book is a first reader in Philippine dance, observed through forty-five years of viewing, reviewing, and doing. It is one observer's understanding of what, where, or how is dance, and who makes it and why we dance. It attempts to answer these questions, aware that more questions ought to be further asked."--BOOK JACKET.

A Journey Through the Enchanted Isles

A Journey Through the Enchanted Isles
Author: Amadis Ma. Guerrero
Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 621420124X

Guerrero once more tours the readers to exciting vacation spots in the islands. With color photographs. “Amadis Ma. Guerrero has elevated travel writing to an art form.” — Rosalinda L. Orosa, Cultural Critic. “He is one of our best travel writers.” — Dr. Margie Holmes, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Tall Story

Tall Story
Author: Candy Gourlay
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407076515

Be careful what you wish for . . . Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could play on the school basketball team, she wishes for her own bedroom, but most of all she wishes that her long lost half brother, Bernardo, could come and live in London, where he belongs. Then Andi's biggest wish comes true and she's minutes away from becoming someone's little sister. As she waits anxiously for Bernardo to arrive from the Philippines, she hopes he'll turn out to be tall and just as mad as she is about basketball. When he finally arrives, he's tall all right. But he's not just tall ... he's a GIANT. In a novel packed with humour and quirkiness, Gourlay explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very different cultures.

The Nature State

The Nature State
Author: Wilko Hardenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351764632

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept – the nature state – as a means for exploring the historical formation of that portion of the state dedicated to managing and protecting nature. Following the Industrial Revolution and post-war exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which sociopolitical regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states. This innovative work marks an early intervention in the tentative turn towards the state in environmental history and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental history, social anthropology and conservation studies.

Plant Diversity in Biocultural Landscapes

Plant Diversity in Biocultural Landscapes
Author: Siva Ramamoorthy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 715
Release: 2023-06-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811986495

The edited book highlights comprehensive studies on plant diversity dynamics, ecosystem processes, and best conservation practices from the interdisciplinary perspectives such as the botanists, ecologists, conservation biologists, geneticists, cell biologists, molecular biotechnologists, and social scientists. The main focus of the book is to address biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse amidst the escalating climate change problems, aggravated by anthropogenic activities in biocultural landscapes. The book describes the biocultural landscape of today, ecology of plant diversity, botany of keystone and other rare species of economic and pharmaceutical significance, ecosystem processes, conservation, and emerging frameworks to sustain biocultural landscapes in the Anthropocene. Biocultural landscapes are tracks of land in many parts of the world, shaped by unique human-nature interactions. Many of these landscapes are populated with indigenous peoples with a unique way of life including their interaction with plants and the environment. The relationship between humans and nature in biocultural landscapes used to be harmonious. However, as the human population surges, much pressure has been experienced by the landscape, hence, the loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services that cascade to agricultural systems. The book is of interest to teachers, professors, policymakers, researchers, and advocates in the fields of botany, ecology, taxonomy, biodiversity conservation, environmental science, molecular biology and genomics, molecular ecology, agriculture, and Agri-tourism, forestry, social science, and climate change professionals. Also, the book serves as a good reference and additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students.

A Handbook of Philippine Folklore

A Handbook of Philippine Folklore
Author: Mellie Leandicho Lopez
Publisher: UP Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2006
Genre: Folk literature, Philippine
ISBN: 9789715425148

The voluminous book provides a range of international theories and methodologies in analytical folklore investigations, and a classification scheme based on genre is offered as the system of taxonomy for Philippine traditional materials. Lopez counts on the regional folklorists to refine the classification according to the texts of their respective areas. The different genres, too, are explained and examined in another part of Lopez's study. The reader will definitely find interesting and useful, the illustrative examples for each genre.