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Article: ASEAN Folk Literature: An Anthology.(Review)
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- Asian Folklore Studies
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- April 1, 2000
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EUGENIO, DAMIANA L., general editor. ASEAN Folk Literature: An Anthology. Manila: ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information, 1995. xvi + 813 pages. Illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index of titles, general index. (Not for sale)
It is a most longed-for volume that is now lying in front of me, and it is really a disappointment to find when you turn the title page over: "This book is not for sale."
One wonders why the Committee has decided not to sell the volume. Could it be that one in 1995 could foresee that more states soon would enter into the ASEAN? The states represented in the book are Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, ...