Description
Book SynopsisRapidly advancing globalization impacts indigenous people worldwide. In this long-term study of a remote village famous for its World Heritage-listed rice terraces, where the people actively confront globalization, Shimizu Hiromu considers the extent to which globalization has penetrated even the remote mountains of the Philippines at the grassroots level.
The book examines globalization in Ifugao Province since Spain's colonization of the Philippines through to the new wave of migrant workers traveling overseas. By focusing on the village of Hapao and its reforestation and cultural revival movement led by Lopez Nauyac, as well as the work of world-renowned film director Kidlat Tahimik and his attempt to remake himself as an authentic Filipino, this book examines globalization from the periphery and shows that we are all deeply connected in the contemporary era of globalization.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Thinking about Globalization at the Periphery: An Attempt at an Anthropology of Response ability
- Part I: Five Hundred Years of Negotiating with Global Powers
- 2 The Ifugao Lifeworld: A Fascination for Anthropologists and Communist Guerillas
- 3 Life amid the Blessings of Forests: Rice Terrace Cultivation and Woodcarving
- 4 Confronting Global Power from the Margins: Invasions and Resistance
- Part II: Re establishing the Connection between the Local and the Global
- 5 The Praxis of Meaning in Lopez Nauyac's 'Global' Gaze
- 6 Memories of Overdevelopment: Kidlat Tahimik's 'Circumnavigation of the World'
- 7 The Politics of Representation: Culture as a Resource
- Part III: Negotiating with Globalization
- 8 Working Overseas and Reviving Tradition: Spreading Wings and Putting Down Roots
- 9 International Cooperation: From Entanglement to a Participatory Anthropology
- 10 Grassroots: Regional Networks and the Anthropology of Response-ability
- Bibliography
- Index
