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Pateros
By Elmer Nocheseda

The book traces the history of Pateros from being a visita of Pasig to that of a town known all over as the home-ground of balut. It unearths the earliest mention of balut and penoy in ecclesiastical annals, Spanish contact records, early vocabularios and travelogues. It presents how a small town responds toits changing ecology as manifested in the expressions of its devotion to Santa Marta, the patron saint of duck raisers. Its ritual of ‘pasubo sa buaya’ hints of its pre-colonial past and acquires newlayers of meaning through the years.

Published 2010
Hardbound/Paperback
274 glossy pages
Brand new