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Pages Review | Bittersweetland by R. Torres Pandan

Everybody cries, even if you don’t show it. All it takes is a little happiness. Or a little hurt. Right now, I’ve had a little of both. After years in exile, Aaron Guillermo returns to his hometown, Bacolod City. But home is no longer the place he once knew. As he steps back onto familiar soil, he faces the sugar cane crisis on the island of Negros, his father’s growing political ambitions, and…

Pages Review | Bittersweetland by R. Torres Pandan

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Excited to see a new book out by the Ateneo Press (honestly giving me a reason to drop by): "Manobo Dreams in Arakan: A People's Struggle to Keep their Homeland" by Karl M. Gaspar, CSsR

This book provides a comprehensive historical account of the struggles of the Manobo in Arakan Valley to keep their ancestral lands, and in the process assert their cultural identity across centuries of colonial rule and integration into the national political system. It describes their many experiences of resistance and accommodation, of creative adaptation, to external pressures and opportunities. Historians, anthropologists, and their students of Philippine society and culture will surely benefit from the many theoretical insights of the author about how indigenous groups like Manobo can increasingly become an integral part of the national and global community while maintaining their own social spaces and cultural contexts.

— Carolyn I. Sobritchea  Professor of Philippine Studies  Asian Center, University of the Philippines > 

Copyright 2010. 6x9 inches.