Places for Happiness explores of an important performance-based actions within the Philippines: the processions and keenness performs linked to Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon referred to as “street dancing.” the size of those hand made performances when it comes to period, time dedication, and efficient hard work marks the Philippines as one of many world’s most important and undervalued performance-centered cultures. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, William Peterson examines how humans come jointly within the streets or on transitority levels, celebrating a shared feel of neighborhood and developing locations for happiness.
The first half the booklet specializes in localized and infrequently hugely idiosyncratic types of the fervour of Christ. Peterson considers not just what humans do in those occasions, yet what it appears like to take part. The book’s moment part offers a window into the various expressions of “street dancing.” highway dancing is inflected by means of localized indigenous and people dance traditions which are bolstered in class and practiced together with spiritual civic gala's. Peterson identifies key frames that form and include the person within the Philippines, whereas monitoring how the neighborhood expands its expressive domestic through conducting a discussion with neighborhood, nationwide, and diasporic Filipino imaginaries.

Ultimately Places for Happiness explores how community-based functionality responds to and fulfills simple human wishes. Many Filipinos depend on relatives and rapid pals for aid and sustenance, and community-based functionality assumes a special and top function in defining, reinforcing, and celebrating shared trust structures. via bringing forth the inner, phenomenological, and embodied features of a variety of community-based practices contributing to human happiness, the booklet bargains a cultural framework that interweaves the person event with that of the collective, plotting out what is living contained in the physique during the coordinates of culture.