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Written by Mary Anne Suyom-San Agustin   
Tuesday, 15 December 2009 09:31


Maayos na buhay, ibibigay
Maayos na buhay, iaalay
Maayos na buhay, pangako ko sa inyo
Mga mahal ko sa buhay. --"Maayos na Buhay," song by R. Amaranto, sung by M. Pantig



The public is warmly invited to the launch of MAALWANG BUHAY, by Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. with John Estanley Z. Penalosa, Tania Belen T. Liwanag, Resto S. Cruz I, and Jimmy M. Melendrez, on Wednesday, December 16, at 4.30 pm, Ateneo de Manila University campus, MVP Center for Student Leadership Basement Lobby. The launch is to commemorate the Month of Overseas Filipinos and celebrate the United Nations International Migrants Day on December 18.

MAALWANG BUHAY, or maayos na buhay in Batangas Tagalog, is based on intensive ethnographic research in an upland village in Batangas Province, identified in the book as Barangay Paraiso. It brings to light a wide range of aspects of the everyday life of the migrants in the village, their families and their community, and gives a nuanced perspective of the migration phenomenon.

From interviews, discussions and research, the book presents and reflects on the respondents' views and experiences regarding courtship and marriage, conjugal togetherness, transnational parenting, house construction, investments, and care giving and education of children, all from the perspective of kinship as cultures of relatedness. The book shows, according to Professor Daniel Miller, "how such an anthropological focus upon kinship can become integrated with a development perspective providing a far more satisfactory and scholarly understanding of these events."

MAALWANG BUHAY, subtitled Family, Overseas Migration, and Cultures of Relatedness in Barangay Paraiso, will be sold at launch price, and will soon be available in other bookstores.

Events in December: Books, Not Bullets! Christmas booksale, ongoing till Dec 15, Ateneo Press bookshop, Sale hours: M-Th 8 am-12 noon, 1-6 pm/1-5 pm F, closed Sat.
Email unipress@admu.edu.ph

Or call for a price list or to reserve: 426-5984, 426-6001 ext 4612/7.

MAALWANG BUHAY (http://ateneopress.org/detail_allbooks.asp?ID=299)

booklaunch, Dec 16, 4.30 pm, MVP Basement Lobby, AdMU campus, QC.


Ateneo de Manila University Press
Bellarmine Hall, AdMU Campus
Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights
Tel 02-4265984; 4266001 ext 4613
unipress@admu.edu.ph


Book of the Month: Highest Hiding Place, Poems by Lawrence L. Ypil

Visit our website: www.ateneopress.org


And see you on Facebook: AteneoPress Manila


Mary Anne Suyom-San Agustin
Ateneo de Manila University Press
Bellarmine Hall, ADMU Campus
Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights
Quezon City, Philippines
Tel.: (632) 426-6001 loc. 4617
E-mail:  msanagustin@ateneo.edu
Website: http://www.ateneopress.org

 

 

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