Filipino Anthropologists - Melba Padilla Maggay, Michael Tan, Alfredo E. Evangelista, F. Landa Jocano (Paperback)

Chapters: Melba Padilla Maggay, Michael Tan, Alfredo E. Evangelista, F. Landa Jocano. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dr. Melba Padilla Maggay is a Filipino anthropologist, activist, author, and essayist. She is a three time winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Dr. Maggay is also the President and Founder of the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture (ISACC), a church-based non-government organization engaged in popular education and development in the Philippines. She is the author of numerous books on Filipino religious culture, writing from the perspective of an Evangelical Christian. She also edits PATMOS magazine, a regular publication of ISACC. Born in 1950, Maggay received her Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communication (cum laude), Master's Degree in English Literature, and PhD in Philippine Studies all from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She was also a research fellow in Cross-cultural Communication with specific application to theological formulations and biblical studies at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of Tyndale House. In 1997, Dr. Maggay received her first Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award, when her "Mother of Stories" received first prize for Essay in English. She later won the first prize in that category in the 1999 and 2002 Palanca Awards, for the essays "Once Upon a Bright Happy Boy" and "Death and Early Sorrow," respectively. Some of Dr. Maggay's books include: ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1156659