Shamanism, Catholicism and gender relations in colonial Philippines, 1521-1685
Contact and conversion : the reconstruction of the "good" woman -- Magellan's legacy -- Contact and "morals" -- "Good" and "bad" women : the virgin and the whore -- Confession and flagellation : the creation of self-policing converts -- Contact and the Ba...
| Summary: | Contact and conversion : the reconstruction of the "good" woman -- Magellan's legacy -- Contact and "morals" -- "Good" and "bad" women : the virgin and the whore -- Confession and flagellation : the creation of self-policing converts -- Contact and the Baylan : the elimination of the animist shaman -- Contact, conversion, and the Baylan -- Evil (and) old women -- Transvestism and the "third sex/gender" space -- Contact and the Inquisition : regendering and resistance -- The archbishop, the priest, the Holy Inquisition, and resistance in Zambales -- Holy confrontation : religion and gender in Bolinao |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-234) and index |
| Physical Description: | XXVIII, 240 S, Ill., 1 Kt, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 075463437X |