Filipino Crosscurrents : Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization /

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Filipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world's goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fajardo, Kale Bantigue (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Seafaring life.
Merchant mariners.
Men > Identity.
Masculinity.
Immigrants.
Filipinos.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
TRANSPORTATION > Ships & Shipbuilding > Pictorial.
Masculinite > Philippines.
Hommes > Identite.
Philippins.
Vie en mer > Philippines.
Marins (Marine marchande) > Philippines.
Shipping > Social aspects.
Immigrants > Philippines.
Masculinity > Philippines.
Seafaring life > Philippines.
Merchant mariners > Philippines.
Philippines.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Filipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world's goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in worldwide maritime trade. In Filipino Crosscurrents, an interdisciplinary ethnography, Kale Bantigue Fajardo examines the cultural politics of seafaring, Filipino maritime masculinities, and globalization in the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. Drawing on fieldwork conducted on ships and in the ports o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9780816678488

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