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Article: Shamanism, Catholicism, and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521-1685.(Book review)
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- December 1, 2006
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Shamanism, Catholicism and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521-1685. By Carolyn Brewer. Women and Gender in the Early Modern Word. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004. xxviv + 242 pp. $89.95 cloth.
With this book, Carolyn Brewer fills a serious lacuna in scholarship on interactions between colonizers and colonized during the early modern period in the Philippines. In her study of this contact zone, Brewer focuses on the differences between colonial and indigenous constructions of gender. She first attends to Spanish constructions of gender in the early modern period. She then turns her attention to the ways in which indigenous Filipino women were ...