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Jan 23Liked by Jean Vengua

Jean, my friend anthropologist Stuart Schlegel worked in the rainforest of Mindanao with the indigenous Teduray. He wrote a fascinating (and sometimes heartbreaking) book 'Wisdom From A Rainforest'. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820324913/wisdom-from-a-rainforest/ Perhaps you might find it interesting. Stuart taught at UCSC and is now deceased.

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So much good stuff here. I'm going to get on the Lynch/Oz film stat! Also I was supposed to go see the Pacita Abad show and totally failed to get myself to the city in time. So thanks for the video!

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What a delightful bit of writing, and handling of the delicate realities of male behavior that are so accepted, but often so hurtful to the women in the family. Thank you for what you are doing to strengthen all our ties to our cultural root systems, helping us all to have " power to" bring about positive change, in ourselves and in the world.

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People from Sorsogon are Bikolanos who are known to be musicians, singers, entertainers. I'm not sure why. My parents are from Casiguran which is a town south of Sorsogon.

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Jean -- what a beautiful ethnoautobiographical account of what you have been discovering about your ancestral roots!! And thank you for the links to CfBS, to the Agta, Sambal, Subanen! There's one link that's not working. We can all identify with the sense of loss but we take heart that our daydreams and visions offer many clues to all that wants to be remembered!

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