Philippine Studies

PHILIPPINE STUDIES is a forum for the dissemination of research in the humanities and social sciences, the expression of scholarly views on various aspects of Philippine life, and the pursuit of friendly and constructive debate. It fosters the study of the Philippines in theoretical, interdisciplinary, comparative, transnational, and global perspectives. It seeks to reach an audience of specialists and nonspecialists, in the Philippines and across the world. Founded in 1953, PHILIPPINE STUDIES is published quarterly by the Ateneo de Manila University.

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Vol 56, No 3 (2008)

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction Details
Caroline Sy Hau 249-250

Articles

Twilling Bata-Bata into Meritocracy: Merito-Patronage Management System in a Modern Philippine Corporation Abstract
Mari Kondo 251-284
Representing Muslimness: Strategic Essentialism in a Land Dispute in Metro Manila Abstract
Akiko Watanabe 285-311
Connected Through "Luck": Samarnon Migrants in Metro Manila and the Home Village Abstract
Naomi Hosoda 313-344

Commentary

Institutional Religion and Modernity-in-Transition: Christianity's Innovations in the Philippines and Latin America Abstract
Jayeel S. Cornelio 345-358

Book Reviews

On the Subject of the Nation: Filipino Writing from the Margins, 1981-2004 Details
David Jonathan Y. Bayot 359-363
To Love and To Suffer: The Development of the Religious Congregations for Women in the Spanish Philippines, 1565-1898 Details
Rosario Cruz-Lucero 363-367
Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse Details
Yen Espiritu 368-370
Doveglion: Collected Poems Details
Jonathan Chua 370-373
Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicsm in the Philippines Details
Kenneth A. Fox 373-375


Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University

ISSN 0031-7837; E-ISSN 2012-2489

PhilJOL is supported by INASP