Covering the life of a girl growing up in a hamlet in Kalinga. As her journey into adulthood negotiates poverty and irregular seasonal food supply. she must deal with travel by foot for all needs, getting acquainted with modern technology, learning about people from bigger places, managing ghosts and things of the spirit world. Stories from Kalinga concludes with the unbearably difficult early life of the narrator's father. The stories, told in a voice that is at once brisk and disarmingly frank, tell of a vanishing past, pathways into modernity, struggles to survive, and how communally shared values and culture forge character and identity.

1.Kalinga (Philippine People) Social Life And Customs. 2.Culture ? Philippines ? Kalinga. 3.Women ? Philippines ? Kalinga ? Social Conditions. 4.Kalinga (Philippines) ? Social Conditions.