00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862217538 Buklod 20201104110300.0 m | | ta 201104s2012 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00038406134 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-921 Galam, Roderick G. author. Communication and Filipino seamen's wives imagined communion and the intimacy of absence Roderick G. Galam. 2012. pages [223]-260 illustration 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260). 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 home and bring ?home? to their husbands. It examines how new communication technologies, particularly the cellphone, have engendered new ways of becoming present and intimate. For seamen's families, cellphone-mediated intimacy creates a space of imagined communion, which becomes the locus of the reproduction of family and affective ties and is itself the result of these emotional and material activities. Seamen's wives. Filipino seamen. Family communication. Cellphones Social aspects. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 60, No. 2 (June 2012), p. 223-260. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 04 November 2020) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-921 Analytics