08/06/2023
Join us on 𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢: 𝘼 𝙒𝙚𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠 on June 14, 2023, at 3:00 pm live at the Ateneo University Press page.
with Author, Dr. Grace Nono
and Special Guests:
Apo Mamerto Tindongan, Ifugao Mumbaki
Bae Lucy P. Rico, Agusanon-Manobo Tribal Leader
Boi Myrna P**a, T'boli Culture Specialist
Dr. Jesus Insilada, Panay-Bukidnon Academic-Poet
Dr. Erlinda Natocyad, Kadaclan Academic-Healer
Hosted by: Dr. Jojo Fung, S.J.
𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: go.ateneo.net/babalyanreg
𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞
Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place depicts the embodied voices of a number of Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed to have perished during colonial times, or to survive on the margins in the present-day. They are either persecuted as witches and purveyors of superstition, or valorized as symbols of gender equality and anticolonial resistance.
Drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and in the Philippine diaspora, Grace Nono’s deep engagement with the song and speech of a number of living ritual specialists demonstrates Native historical agency in the 500th anniversary of the contact between the people of the PhilippineIslands and the European colonizers.
𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: go.ateneo.net/babalyanreg