Rice and magic a cultural history from the precolonial world to the present
Beliefs in rice spirits were integral to the magical worldview of the precolonial inhabitants of these islands. Under Spanish colonialism, rice became a staple but it underwent disenchantment and symbolic marginality. By the 1870s rice production fell short relative to demand. Twentieth-century init...
| Published in: | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 61, no. 3 (Sep. 2013), 297-330 |
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2013
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