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When Turtles Come Home

By: Victoria Hoffarth

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When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, “There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most fit.” Thus, despite having been born and brought up in the Philippines, Victoria never felt at home there. And so, she became a cultural refugee, searching for where she most fitted. Her engaging and intimate narrative remembers back to the early 50s, when her little town was still recovering from the destruction caused by World War II, through thirty years of discontented wanderings to America and back, then onwards to the UK, Germany, and Canada. Victoria delves into Philippine culture, what is unique to their society and what can be learned by the wider world. Likewise, she suggests what Filipinos can learn from the wider world. She further questions what it is to be Filipino, and if she can call herself that? Are you no more than where you are born and raised? A liberal globalist, two other issues uppermost to her are her being a woman in a setting where feminism is frowned upon, and her beliefs as an “a-la-carte” Roman Catholic, given the mindset of a deeply conservative and traditional society. Much more than a memoir, this is the story of finding yourself and learning to look beyond what you know to find home - even if that is where you first began.

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Song of Negros

Myths and Culture in the Philippines

By: Victoria Hoffarth

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Song of Negros

Myths and Culture in the Philippines

By: Victoria Hoffarth

Well written and interesting stories about myths in the Philippines and how they compare to myths elsewhere. For the curious as to why such fantastical tales and what they mean, it gives explanations about their symbolic values as well as their underpinnings given the history and collectivistic culture of the Philippines.

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When Turtles Come Home

By: Victoria Hoffarth

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By: Victoria Hoffarth

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Song of Negros

Myths and Culture in the Philippines

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Myths and Culture in the Philippines

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When Turtles Come Home

When Turtles Come Home

Song of Negros

Song of Negros

When Turtles Come Home

When Turtles Come Home

Song of Negros

Song of Negros

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