Myth, Mimesis and Magic in the Music of the T'boli, Philippines

Shows that musical mimesis is an intrinsic part of the cultural process of interpreting, articulating, making, and remaking the world. Embraces wide-ranging ethnographic materials and issues that will be of interest to musicologists, anthropologists, and students of Southeast Asian folklore and cross-cultural aesthetics.

Published in 2005.

Finalist, 2006 Gintong Aklat Award, for Social Science.

Winner, 2006 National Book Award, for Folklore.