JSAWS Vol. 2, No. 3 (1996)

[Enrica Garzilli]

We are very glad to announce that

                JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIA WOMEN STUDIES 
                 VOL. 2 (1996), No. 3, December 1
              ISSN 1085-7478 Copyright (c)1995-96 JSAWS 
                 http://www.shore.net/~india/jsaws/
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has just been emailed to our Members. You can read the issue on our ftp
server. In a few dyas it will be published in our WWW pages.

IN THIS ISSUE:

- NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
- PAPER: *From 'Baylan' to 'Bruha': Hispanic Impact on the 
  Animist Priestess in the Philippines* by Carolyn Brewer
- NEW TITLES: 
  Review of Eva Steiner Moseley (ed.) *Women, Information,
  and the Future* (Enrica Garzilli)
- COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Abstract

In the Philippines, at the time of the Spanish conquest, the Catholic 
priests were instructed by Bishop Salazar to learn and preach in the 
languages of the inhabitants. However, certain cluster of words, 
especially those involving Animist priestesses were altered, negated and 
then marginalised almost to extinction. This movement paralleled the 
demonisation and eventual disappearance of the priestesses from 
historical texts. The paper wants to: 1) describe the process involved 
in this double negation; 2) recover the forgotten words; 3) give Animist 
priestesses back their rightful place in Philippine history.

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As already announced, the collected JSAWS 1995-1996 issues containing 
the Dowry and Bride-burning International Conferences' papers will be 
printed and distributed as books in about a month. As soon as we have the 
first copy ready we will give you the bibliographic information and 
price. 
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Enjoy the reading!

Dr. Enrica Garzilli
Editor-in-Chief