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The songs of Salanda : and other stories of Sulu / H. Arlo Nimmo.

By: Nimmo, Harry.
Seattle, U.S.A. : University of Washington Press, ©1994Description: x, 237 p. : map ; 25 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 029597334X (alk. paper); 0295973358 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Anthropologists -- Fiction | Bajau (Southeast Asian people) -- Fiction | Sulu Archipelago (Philippines) -- Social life and customs -- FictionDDC classification: /N61
Contents:
Sulu -- Masa's wife -- The saitan -- Child Bangsa -- Lam -- An unexpected source -- Monsoon night -- The possessed -- The songs of Salanda -- Mike in Manila -- Interlude in Zamboanga -- The remarkable Mrs. Dickens -- To each his God -- A death in sunshine -- Amak -- Sulu.
Summary: Sixteen stories by an anthropologist who lived with boat dwellers in the Philippines. In one story the village is paradise and Salanda is a beautiful girl, in another story Salanda is old and paradise has become an ugly development site.
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Fiction Section 		Fic /N61 (Browse shelf) Available D-01291

Colored map of the Sulu Archipelago and Philippine Islands on endpapers.

Sulu -- Masa's wife -- The saitan -- Child Bangsa -- Lam -- An unexpected source -- Monsoon night -- The possessed -- The songs of Salanda -- Mike in Manila -- Interlude in Zamboanga -- The remarkable Mrs. Dickens -- To each his God -- A death in sunshine -- Amak -- Sulu.

Sixteen stories by an anthropologist who lived with boat dwellers in the Philippines. In one story the village is paradise and Salanda is a beautiful girl, in another story Salanda is old and paradise has become an ugly development site.

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