The Passing of Rice Spirits: Cosmology, Technology, and Gender Relations in the Colonial Philippines

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Subjects: rice production; cosmology; technological change; gender relations; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; History; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/99; https://www.routledge.com/Early-Modern-Southeast-Asia-1350-1800/Keat-Gin-Anh-Tuan/p/book/9781138838758#
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Historians agree that; in terms of gender relations; precolonial societies in Southeast Asia were remarkably egalitarian. Female autonomy and overall gender equality have been attributed to the cognatic; specifically bilateral; kinship system that had long prevailed across most parts the region. Stu...