SYNOPSIS:
Like her A Study of Philippine Games (UP Press 2001), Mellie Lopez's A Handbook of Philippine Folklore is expected to be another landmark publication. The voluminous book provides a range of international theories and methodologies in analytical folklore investigations and a classification scheme based on genre is offered as the system of taxonomy for Philippine traditional materials. Lopez counts on the regional folklorists to refine the classification according to the texts of their respective areas. The different genres, too, are explained and examined in another part of Lopez's study. The reader will definitely find interesting and useful, the illustrative examples for each genre.
Because the Handbook is intended to be introductory, the author is optimistic about the future of Philippine folkloristics. Lopez believes that there is no limit to what the young and energetic folklorists can and will do for the future of the Philippine folklore.
484 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006