TY - BOOK AU - Lasco, Gideon TI - The Philippines is not a small country SN - 9789715509930 AV - PR 9550.9 .L37 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Quezon City, Philippines PB - Bughaw KW - PHILIPPINE ESSAYS (ENGLISH) N1 - 1. Country -- 2. Nation -- 3. Culture -- 4. People -- 5. Technology -- 6. Modernity -- World N2 - This book is an exploration of the Philippines as a beautiful land, a home to a diversity of peoples, a nation-in-the-making, and a country at the heart of the world. Drawing from anthropology, history, contemporary events, popular culture, and the author’s field experiences and travels, the essays draw connections between nature and culture, self and society, the local and the global, as well as the past and the present in order to arrive at a deeper, fuller, critical, yet hopeful view of a country that is larger than many imagine it to be ER -