Communication and Filipino seamen's wives imagined communion and the intimacy of absence

Communication and Filipino seamen's wives imagined communion and the intimacy of absence

Seamen's wives know absence very well. Their lives are striated by it. Based on interviews with seamen's wives conducted in Ilocos Norte, this article investigates the communicative practices obtaining amid absence and separation, and the wives' activities that bring their husbands ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 60, No. 2 (June 2012), p. 223-260.
Main Author: Galam, Roderick G. (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: 2012.
Subjects:
Seamen's wives.
Filipino seamen.
Family communication.
Cellphones > Social aspects.
Online Access:https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9