Download or read book Songs and Gifts at the Frontier written by Jose S. Buenconsejo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.