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Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) was the foremost anthropologist of the twentieth century, and one of its most renowned intellectuals of any persuasion. Common readers, if they know him at all, tend to do so only by Tristes Tropiques (French for “Sad Tropics”), his 1955 memoir of his fieldwork among Brazilian tribes and his travels as an academic junketeer in other alien enclaves. That book is salted with animadversions on the spread of the “monoculture” of the West doing its worst to refashion the world in its unhandsome image. When he retails for a popular audience his experiences among the Caduveo, Bororo, and Nambikwara Indians, his observations are exceedingly sharp, shrewd, and empathetic. Yet although ....
This 2021, you can expand your reading list and consider these Filipino writers and publishers. With the country’s notoriously fickle internet connectivity and the continuing danger of physical contact, I find books a safe remedy to the growing loneliness of lockdown. Many local cultural workers and institutions, despite the punishing circumstances of this current crisis, are putting out work, which deserve a much larger audience. This 2021, you can expand your reading list and consider these Filipino writers and publishers. National Publishers The country’s biggest publishers often still have books worth checking out. Anvil Publishing has repackaged several Filipino classics for a contemporary audience, including Manuel Arguilla, Lope K. Santos, and the always fabulous Nick Joaquin. Books from the dearly departed Visprint Inc Bob Ong’s bestsellers, Agay Llanera’s heartfelt “Choco Chip Hips,” “Kikomachine,” and “Trese” comics have found a seco ....
Our best Filipino books of 2020 Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff Updated Dec 29, 2020 2:57:26 PM enablePagination: false endIndex: We asked a few critics, writers, and publishers to give us some of their best or favorite reads of 2020. Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) I’d like to think there are more Filipinos who read this year. The success of online book fairs such as Aklatan and the ease of having a book or books delivered to your home have certainly satiated our need to explore worlds elsewhere or understand the direness of our situation. In Glenn Diaz’s essay on the function of fiction in the time of the pandemic, he says, “Fictional stories are most ‘instructive,’ I feel, in these moments of overlaps and slippages, when they approximate our ‘real’ experiences and perceptions just enough that we are jarred to take a second hard look. What fiction provides is not ‘information’ or ‘facts’ in the way that guideb ....