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Rapidly 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.
Awards
Japan Academy Prize Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Award
About Authors
SHIMIZU Hiromu is a Japanese cultural anthropologist and Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University. He began teaching as Lecturer at the University of Tokyo, and served at Kyushu University as Assistant Professor in 1985. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Tokyo in 1987 for his thesis titled “Change and Sustainability: Accepting Events in the Society of Pinatubo Aeta” (trans.). He was appointed Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Social Culture, Kyushu University, in 1994, and took up his current position at Kyoto University in 2006. He has received prestigious awards including the Award of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (2016) and the Japan Academy Award (2017).
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
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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
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