Author: Stefan SeitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeta (Philippine people)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Aeta at the Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines
Author: Stefan SeitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeta (Philippine people)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Fire and Mud
Author: Christopher G. NewhallPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Lahars
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
An impressive collection of 62 technical papers recounting the eruption of Mo Pinatubo in 1991 and its aftermath. The contributors reflect the internatio cooperation exhibited during the eruption (ten times larger than Mount St. Helens) and explore the precursors, processes, and products of the eru
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Author: In the Shadow of the Lingering Mt. Pinatubo Disaster
Author: Maria Cynthia Rose Banzon BautistaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pinatubo, Mount (Philippines)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Globalization in Southeast Asia
Author: Shinji YamashitaPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812551
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.
Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk
Author: Susan C. LoughlinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111757
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The first comprehensive assessment of global volcanic hazards and risk, with detailed regional profiles, for the disaster risk reduction community. Also available as Open Access.
Home of the Ashfall : a Memoir
Author: John Jack G. WigleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789715067423
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Owl Friends
Author: Carla M. PacisPublisher:
ISBN: 9789711902049
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Amelia and her family move to a resettlement area after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. There she makes a new friend, an Aeta named Johnny, who knows much about herbal medicine and keeps a pet owl hidden in his hair. Her parents are prejudiced against the Aetas until one day they learn to respect the wisdom and kindness offered by Johnny and his grandfather.
Ethnopharmacology
Author: Michael HeinrichPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118930738
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Ethnopharmacology is one of the world’s fastest-growing scientific disciplines encompassing a diverse range of subjects. It links natural sciences research on medicinal, aromatic and toxic plants with socio-cultural studies and has often been associated with the development of new drugs. The Editors of Ethnopharmacology have assembled an international team of renowned contributors to provide a critical synthesis of the substantial body of new knowledge and evidence on the subject that has emerged over the past decade. Divided into three parts, the book begins with an overview of the subject including a brief history, ethnopharmacological methods, the role of intellectual property protection, key analytical approaches, the role of ethnopharmacology in primary/secondary education and links to biodiversity and ecological research. Part two looks at ethnopharmacological contributions to modern therapeutics across a range of conditions including CNS disorders, cancer, bone and joint health and parasitic diseases. The final part is devoted to regional perspectives covering all continents, providing a state-of-the –art assessment of the status of ethnopharmacological research globally. A comprehensive, critical synthesis of the latest developments in ethnopharmacology. Includes a section devoted to ethnopharmacological contributions to modern therapeutics across a range of conditions. Contributions are from leading international experts in the field. This timely book will prove invaluable for researchers and students across a range of subjects including ethnopharmacology, ethnobotany, medicinal plant research and natural products research. Ethnopharmacology- A Reader is part of the ULLA Series in Pharmaceutical Sciences www.ullapharmsci.org
Puro Arte
Author: Lucy Mae San Pablo BurnsPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814744494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies Puro Arte explores the emergence of Filipino American theater and performance from the early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino performing body's location as it conjoins colonial histories of the Philippines with U.S. race relations and discourses of globalization. Puro arte, translated from Spanish into English, simply means “pure art.” In Filipino, puro arte however performs a much more ironic function, gesturing rather to the labor of over-acting, histrionics, playfulness, and purely over-the-top dramatics. In this book, puro arte functions as an episteme, a way of approaching the Filipino/a performing body at key moments in U.S.-Philippine imperial relations, from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, early American plays about the Philippines, Filipino patrons in U.S. taxi dance halls to the phenomenon of Filipino/a actors in Miss Saigon. Using this varied archive, Puro Arte turns to performance as an object of study and as a way of understanding complex historical processes of racialization in relation to empire and colonialism.