The Philippines is Not a Small Country: Essays on Culture, Modernity and Nationhood

• Main Author: Lasco, Gideon
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Philippine culture; Philippine politics; sociology; anthropology; Anthropology; Development Studies; Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/65; http://www.ateneo.edu/ateneopress/product/philippines-not-small-country
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This book is an exploration of the Philippines as a beautiful land, a home to a diversity of peoples, a nation-in-the-making, and a country at the heart of the world. Drawing from anthropology, history, contemporary events, popular culture, and the author’s field experiences and travels, the essays draw connections between nature and culture, self and society, the local and the global, as well as the past and the present in order to arrive at a deeper, fuller, critical, yet hopeful view of a country that is larger than many imagine it to be.