Playing With Water
Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2903474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Casper (Boston College, corresponding author), James Hamilton-Paterson |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2759356 |
| OpenAlex | W2085769052 |
| Language | EN |
James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole. For it is in places like this rather than Manila of the international news reports that the underlying political and cultural reality of the Philippines may be seen
Art · Geography · Literature · Passion · Solitude · History · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |