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Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines

Gideon Lasco

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Description:This book is about height: what it means and how it affects young people in the Philippines. What does being tall—or being short—signify in the country where the average height is 5'4" (163 cm) for males, and 5' (151.4 cm) for females, and where over 30 percent of children under five years of age are stunted? Where do notions about height come from and how do they figure in various domains of Philippine society, from basketball games to beauty pageants, from education to employment, from public health to pop culture?Height Matters attends to these questions by presenting an "ethnography of human stature" based on the author's fieldwork in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Some economic historians have proposed the existence of a "height premium" or an inherent advantage of being tall, which draw parallels with popular understandings, as in the expression "Iba na ang matangkad" (It's different if you're tall) in a 1970s TV commercial. The central proposition of this anthropological account, however, is that height is a relational attribute that can be best understood as a form of "body capital" that derives its value from the many figurations of height in everyday life in the country.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines. To get started finding Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 240

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2023

ISBN: 6210900038

Description: This book is about height: what it means and how it affects young people in the Philippines. What does being tall—or being short—signify in the country where the average height is 5'4" (163 cm) for males, and 5' (151.4 cm) for females, and where over 30 percent of children under five years of age are stunted? Where do notions about height come from and how do they figure in various domains of Philippine society, from basketball games to beauty pageants, from education to employment, from public health to pop culture?Height Matters attends to these questions by presenting an "ethnography of human stature" based on the author's fieldwork in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Some economic historians have proposed the existence of a "height premium" or an inherent advantage of being tall, which draw parallels with popular understandings, as in the expression "Iba na ang matangkad" (It's different if you're tall) in a 1970s TV commercial. The central proposition of this anthropological account, however, is that height is a relational attribute that can be best understood as a form of "body capital" that derives its value from the many figurations of height in everyday life in the country.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines. To get started finding Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines

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