Thomas M. McKenna
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520210158
- eISBN:
- 9780520919648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520210158.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes the reinvigoration of electoral politics in Cotabato with the removal of the martial law regime and the collapse of the Marcos regime in 1986. It highlights the unprecedented ...
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This chapter describes the reinvigoration of electoral politics in Cotabato with the removal of the martial law regime and the collapse of the Marcos regime in 1986. It highlights the unprecedented employment of Islamic and Muslim nationalist discourse in electoral campaigns in Cotabato, and also discusses four post-Marcos political events that involved active participation of the Muslim urban poor. These include two mass rallies in 1986 and two election campaigns in 1988.Less
This chapter describes the reinvigoration of electoral politics in Cotabato with the removal of the martial law regime and the collapse of the Marcos regime in 1986. It highlights the unprecedented employment of Islamic and Muslim nationalist discourse in electoral campaigns in Cotabato, and also discusses four post-Marcos political events that involved active participation of the Muslim urban poor. These include two mass rallies in 1986 and two election campaigns in 1988.
Thomas M. McKenna
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520210158
- eISBN:
- 9780520919648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520210158.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the land, people, and contemporary political economy of Cotabato. It describes the community of Campo Muslim, which serves as an architectural testament to the peripheralization ...
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This chapter examines the land, people, and contemporary political economy of Cotabato. It describes the community of Campo Muslim, which serves as an architectural testament to the peripheralization of Cotabato's Muslims under the Philippine republic. The chapter explains that most community members are acutely conscious of being poor Muslims in a city dominated by Christians, and that awareness has induced a tempered resentment toward city Christians which may occasionally be agitated into intense anger by a perceived offense.Less
This chapter examines the land, people, and contemporary political economy of Cotabato. It describes the community of Campo Muslim, which serves as an architectural testament to the peripheralization of Cotabato's Muslims under the Philippine republic. The chapter explains that most community members are acutely conscious of being poor Muslims in a city dominated by Christians, and that awareness has induced a tempered resentment toward city Christians which may occasionally be agitated into intense anger by a perceived offense.
Sujata Mukherjee
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199468225
- eISBN:
- 9780199087426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Indian History, Cultural History
Throughout the nineteenth century traditional Indian birthing practices were under scrutiny of both Bengali and British reformers. Missionaries and British doctors believed that non-hygienic ...
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Throughout the nineteenth century traditional Indian birthing practices were under scrutiny of both Bengali and British reformers. Missionaries and British doctors believed that non-hygienic practices of traditional birth attendants, known as dhais—who were generally lower-caste Hindus or poor Muslims—and the unhygienic condition of the anturghar or sutikagriha (where birthing took place) were the main causes of high rates of maternal mortality. Many physicians wrote medical guidebooks in simple Bengali and articles on improved midwifery were published in vernacular popular magazines to instruct women in modern reproductive practices. Institutionalized training programmes for midwives were introduced in the 1870s. For the colonized people, modernization of reproductive health was part of the desire for self-improvement and formulation of middle-class identity. The emphasis on unsanitary practices of the traditional birth attendants made them more and more marginalized in the emerging discourse on science and modernity.Less
Throughout the nineteenth century traditional Indian birthing practices were under scrutiny of both Bengali and British reformers. Missionaries and British doctors believed that non-hygienic practices of traditional birth attendants, known as dhais—who were generally lower-caste Hindus or poor Muslims—and the unhygienic condition of the anturghar or sutikagriha (where birthing took place) were the main causes of high rates of maternal mortality. Many physicians wrote medical guidebooks in simple Bengali and articles on improved midwifery were published in vernacular popular magazines to instruct women in modern reproductive practices. Institutionalized training programmes for midwives were introduced in the 1870s. For the colonized people, modernization of reproductive health was part of the desire for self-improvement and formulation of middle-class identity. The emphasis on unsanitary practices of the traditional birth attendants made them more and more marginalized in the emerging discourse on science and modernity.
