Donn V. Hart

Homosexuality and Transvestism in the Philippines: The Cebuan Filipino Bayot and Lakin-on

A major conclusion of the pioneering cross-cultural investigation, Patterns of Sexual Behavior, was that &dquo;It is most regrettable that an area of inquiry [sexual behavior] having such fundamental importance in both its practical and its theoretical aspects should have been so inadequately studied and so incompletely understood&dquo; (Ford and Beach 1951: 267). This general conclusion, although made nearly two decades ago, still applies to one Southeast Asian nation, the Philippines. The paucity of information on the sexual activities of Christian Filipinos prompted one clinical psychologist to report recently that &dquo;Filipino attitudes and behavior in the sexual realm are not much studied and are certainly not well understood as yet&dquo; ( Sechrest 1966: 32). Basic sources for Filipino society and cul-

Philippine Rural-Urban Migration: A View from Caticugan, a Bisayan Village

Documents u:hy peasants from one Bisayan village in Negros Island, Philippines, migrate to the city-boih permunently and temporarily-and their age, sex, and educational characterisfics. Indicates changes in traditional village life primarily owing to the expanding population, e.g. simplification of the ceremonial life, ef fecfs of growing population on the distribution of environmental spirits, and kinship restrictions on the choice of spouses. [Accepted for publication: December 1970.]

A Report on the Treatment of Asia in American Textbooks

More than one hundred textbooks in American and world history, geography, modern problems and civics were examined recently by social studies and Asiatic specialists to evaluate the accuracy and adequacy of the material included on the Far East. Their report, Treatment of Asia in American textbooks (104 p. 40¢), has been published by the American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, New York. Dr. Howard E. Wilson, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, coordinator and editor of the report, writes that “There may be arguments over what pupils need most to be taught about Asia; there can no longer be argument over the necessity of their being well informed.” One significant recommendation made by all the analysts was that experts in Asiatic affairs should be consulted more frequently by textbook authors and publishers to insure “accuracy, relevancy, and comprehensiveness of information included” on Asia.