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This paper examines the many tales of Juan Pusong which reveal the fundamentally comic role of this Cebuano trickster. Pusong creates laughter and delights his audience in a manner that is carnivalesque. Because he lives on the periphery of society, he can upset order and certainty to reveal cultural ideals. His humorous gestures show that norms and frames of power are anything but final. He bestows contradictions on such order and certainty so as to expose the flaws that exist in these distinctions. The effects of subversion and inversion in the narratives show that humor as a literary device has the ability to turn the gaze back on authority.
The Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society has from the outset covered all aspects of the vast areas named in the title. In part owing to the professional interest of its first editor, the late Dr. Rudolph Rahmann, SVD, it has become the favorite outlet for articles on anthropology and archaeology of the Philippines. It has received wide acclaim by competent judges as one of the best scholarly publications of this country.
The University of San Carlos Press is the official publisher of academic books and scholarly journals of the University of San Carlos. Established in 1964 as San Carlos Publications, it was renamed USC Press in 2008. In 2015 it created an imprint called Verbum Books which is used on all of its textbooks.
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Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society
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