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Mathematical And Anthropological Analysis Of Northern Luzon Funeral Textile, Ma. Louise Antonette N. De Las Peñas, Analyn V. Salvador-Amores Jan 2016

Mathematical And Anthropological Analysis Of Northern Luzon Funeral Textile, Ma. Louise Antonette N. De Las Peñas, Analyn V. Salvador-Amores

Mathematics Faculty Publications

The study presents a mathematical analysis and provides an anthropological perspective of the funeral textile of the indigenous communities in northern Luzon, Philippines. In particular, a symmetry analysis is performed, based on principles of group theory and transformation geometry, on the various repeating patterns found in funeral garments and blankets. Results show that particular frieze groups and plane crystallographic groups are favored due to choice of motifs which are reflective of cultural beliefs and funeral traditions, as well as weaving style and methodology. The results of the analysis point to the depth of mathematics present in the work of the …


Elements Of Deconstruction: Differance, Dissemination, Destinerrance, And Geocatastrophe, Marie Chris B. Ramoya Jan 2016

Elements Of Deconstruction: Differance, Dissemination, Destinerrance, And Geocatastrophe, Marie Chris B. Ramoya

Philosophy Department Faculty Publications

This paper attempts to elucidate on Jacques Derrida’s concept of deconstruction and its difficult elements, viz., differance, dissemination, destinerrance, and geocatasthrophe. These basic ideas need elaboration for their proper understanding. Once successfully achieved, then here lies the significance of this paper.


Ang Pagtuturo Ng Wika At Kulturang Filipino Sa Disiplinang Filipino (Konteksto Ng K-12), Galileo S. Zafra Jan 2016

Ang Pagtuturo Ng Wika At Kulturang Filipino Sa Disiplinang Filipino (Konteksto Ng K-12), Galileo S. Zafra

Katipunan

nakagawiang pagtuturo na may diin sa gramatika at komunikasyon. Ang ipinapanukalang dulog ay nagpapatingkad sa ugnayan ng wika at kulturang Filipino. May iba’t ibang aspekto ang ugnayang ito ngunit itinatampok ang pagtingin sa wika bilang “daluyan” o “sisidlan” ng kultura. Gayumpaman, hindi humihinto ang pananaw na ito sa enumerasyon lamang ng mga tao, lugar, bagay, pangyayari, konsepto, at iba pang sagisag-kulturang Filipino, at sa halip, laging iginigiit na ang kultura ay dinamiko, kolektibo, at may ginagalawang konteksto. Naglatag din ng isang kongkretong modelo, at halimbawang aplikasyon, sa pagsusuri ng mga cultural domain o pangkulturang larang na nakatuon sa wika. Sa …


L’Art Nouveau Dans L’Architecture Philippine. L’Occident En Orient, Erik Akpedonu, Fernando N. Zialcita Jan 2016

L’Art Nouveau Dans L’Architecture Philippine. L’Occident En Orient, Erik Akpedonu, Fernando N. Zialcita

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

L’avènement d’un style artistique peut être considéré, du point de vue sociologique et anthropologique, comme une réponse à différents stimuli sociaux (Inglis 2005; voir aussi Firth 1992). Des phénomènes européens des deux dernières décennies du xixe siècle (Fahr-Becker 2004 ; Lavallée 1996 ; Tschudi Madsen 1956; Pevsner 1959) sont à l’origine de l’Art nouveau. Il s’agit du rejet de l’historicisme architectural et de l’académisme en général associé à la quête d’un style plus contemporain avec la contribution de la technologie industrielle, de la recherche d’un mode d’expression plus spontané et personnel et de l’élargissement du vocabulaire de l’esthétique avec l’aide …


El Cristo Negro: Presencia Y Significado En La Nueva España Y Filipinas, Fernando N. Zialcita Jan 2016

El Cristo Negro: Presencia Y Significado En La Nueva España Y Filipinas, Fernando N. Zialcita

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Negotiating Risk And Uncertainty: Internal Migration And Rural Villagers In Albay Province, Hedda Ransan-Cooper Nov 2015

Negotiating Risk And Uncertainty: Internal Migration And Rural Villagers In Albay Province, Hedda Ransan-Cooper

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle examines the role of local discourses of risk and associated affective practices (embodied emotions) in decisions to migrate from rural to urban/peri-urban areas. Drawing on a study in a rural setting in Albay province, it argues that mobility decisions involve negotiation between public discourses about risk and a private self that considers one’s capabilities and experiences. Although the risks associated with mobility are actively managed, these are imbued with uncertainty and are based on incalculable aspects of risk management such as hope and trust, especially among immediate social networks as practices of communal risk management have become increasingly undermined.Keywords: …


Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar Nov 2015

Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


The Population History Of The Philippines: A Genetic Overview, Frederick C. Delfin Nov 2015

The Population History Of The Philippines: A Genetic Overview, Frederick C. Delfin

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

This professorial address synthesizes the findings of several studies on the genetics of Philippine population groups and presents them in a manner accessible to nonspecialists. These studies examined different types of DNA (Y-chromosome, mitochondrial, and autosomal) samples contributed by participants in twelve regional centers and nineteen ethnolinguistic groups. The data reveal (a) genetic affinities with different groups in the Asia-Pacific region, (b) genetic signals of ancient demographic events, (c) an ancient genetic history of about 5,000–50,000 years ago, and (d) a complex population genetic structure. This genetic overview has implications for the study of human history, forensics, and medicine.Keywords: DNA …


Philippine Kinship And Social Organization From The Perspective Of Historical Linguistics, Maria Kristina Gallego Nov 2015

Philippine Kinship And Social Organization From The Perspective Of Historical Linguistics, Maria Kristina Gallego

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Based on a reconstruction of Proto-Philippine kinship and social organization terminologies, thisarticle characterizes early Philippine kinship as bilateral with possible quasi-lineages. These features support the reconstruction of the Proto–Malayo-Polynesian system made by George Peter Murdock (1949) rather than that of Robert Blust (1980). In terms of leadership, the early Philippine community is described as dualistic in nature, allowing achieved and ascribed or hereditary chiefdom—thus deviating from the ancestral concept of hereditary leadership in the Proto–Malayo-Polynesian system. Changes in the Philippine kinship system are traced to show innovations in nomenclature and behavior toward certain kin.Keywords: historical linguistics • cultural reconstruction • …


Individual, Family, And Culture Level Contributions To Child Physical Abuse And Neglect: A Longitudinal Study In Nine Countries, Jennifer E. Lansford, Jennifer Godwin, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Arnaldo Zelli, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Anna Silvia Bombi, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Patrick S. Malone, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Sombat Tapanya, Liane Peña Alampay Nov 2015

Individual, Family, And Culture Level Contributions To Child Physical Abuse And Neglect: A Longitudinal Study In Nine Countries, Jennifer E. Lansford, Jennifer Godwin, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Arnaldo Zelli, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini, Anna Silvia Bombi, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Patrick S. Malone, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Sombat Tapanya, Liane Peña Alampay

Psychology Department Faculty Publications

This study advances understanding of predictors of child abuse and neglect at multiple levels of influence. Mothers, fathers, and children (N = 1,432 families, M age of children = 8.29 years) were interviewed annually in three waves in 13 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). Multilevel models were estimated to examine predictors of (a) within-family differences across the three time points, (b) between-family within-culture differences, and (c) between-cultural group differences in mothers’ and fathers’ reports of corporal punishment and children’s reports of their parents’ neglect. These analyses addressed …


Tragedy, History, And Ecstasy: Concerning Nietzsche’S “Untimely” Ideas On Authentic Selfhood, Marc Oliver D. Pasco Sep 2015

Tragedy, History, And Ecstasy: Concerning Nietzsche’S “Untimely” Ideas On Authentic Selfhood, Marc Oliver D. Pasco

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

This paper proposes that there exists a specific philosophical connection between Nietzsche’s thoughts on tragedy in Birth of Tragedy and his thoughts on history in “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life.” The paper hopes to enrich one’s appreciation of Nietzsche’s early ideas on authentic selfhood by showing the relation between Dionysiac ecstasy and unhistorical consciousness. A postscript in the last part of the paper examines Philippine folk religiosity within the framework of the aforementioned connection between Dionysiac ecstasy and unhistorical consciousness.


Undecided Empire: The Travails Of Imperial Representation Of Filipinos At The Greater America Exposition, 1899, Michael C. Hawkins Aug 2015

Undecided Empire: The Travails Of Imperial Representation Of Filipinos At The Greater America Exposition, 1899, Michael C. Hawkins

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle examines the first formal exhibit of Filipinos under American rule at the Greater America Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1899. It focuses specifically on the remarkably discursive forms of representation at a time before official discourses of empire and the “Philippines” or “Filipinos” were established. In this sense the exposition marked a rare instance of true colonial encounter in which the contingencies and vulnerabilities of empire were plainly manifest. The exposition also provided a critical baseline by which to gauge evolving discourses of representation at subsequent expositions, particularly the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.Keywords: Greater America Exposition • Omaha …


Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar Aug 2015

Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Fishermen, Fishmongers, And The Sea: Economic Restructuring And Gender Dynamics In A Philippine Community, Nelson Nava Turgo Aug 2015

Fishermen, Fishmongers, And The Sea: Economic Restructuring And Gender Dynamics In A Philippine Community, Nelson Nava Turgo

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle provides a place- and work-specific exposition of gendered transformation in a local economy in Quezon province in the Philippines, where the declining productivity of fisheries since 1985 has seen a concomitant boom in fish marketing in nearby auction houses. It presents ethnographic data on seven families whose fishermen-husbands virtually abandoned fishing and assumed household management while their wives took on work as full-time fishmongers. The fishermen coped with the loss of economic clout by asserting masculine power, which resulted in spousal tensions, restrictions on their wives’ mobility and social lives, and incidents of domestic violence.Keywords: fishermen • fishing community …


The Philippines And Al-Andalus: Linking The Edges Of The Classical Islamic World, Isaac Donoso Jun 2015

The Philippines And Al-Andalus: Linking The Edges Of The Classical Islamic World, Isaac Donoso

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

This research note offers a broad analysis of the central elements that constitute Islamic identity in the Philippines in a manner that reconciles Philippine Islam with the global history of Islamic civilization. The contact with the Spaniards and the legacy of Islamic Spain serve as essential elements in defining Islamicity in the Philippines. Hence, Islam in the Philippines can be appreciated as combining the richness of a cultural process that includes influences from the East as well as the West (al-Andalus), shaping the Philippines as the meeting place of both edges of the Islamic world.KEYWORDS: ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION • PHILIPPINE ISLAM …


Editor's Introduction, Michael D.; Pante Jun 2015

Editor's Introduction, Michael D.; Pante

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Conversations On The Global South – Liberal Revolutions And The African Future: An Interview With Keith Hart, Lisandro Claudio May 2015

Conversations On The Global South – Liberal Revolutions And The African Future: An Interview With Keith Hart, Lisandro Claudio

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Economic anthropologist Keith Hart (KH), one of the leading figures in African studies, spoke to Social Transformations editor Lisandro Claudio (LC) to discuss the future of African regionalism. Hart, a Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has recently co-edited with John Sharp the volume, People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014). The interview took place in Copenhagen in November 2014.


Conversations On The Global South – Thoughts On Theorizing From The South: An Interview With John Comaroff, Lisandro Claudio May 2015

Conversations On The Global South – Thoughts On Theorizing From The South: An Interview With John Comaroff, Lisandro Claudio

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

The following interview with John Comaroff" (JC), conducted by Social Transformations editor Lisandro Claudio (LC), took place in Copenhagen in November 2014. Its content arises largely out of the recent publication of Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa, by Jean and John Comaroff" (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2012).


Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, And Religious Change Among Eighteenth-Century Aeta And Ilongot In Eastern Central Luzon, Mark; Ateneo Dizon Feb 2015

Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, And Religious Change Among Eighteenth-Century Aeta And Ilongot In Eastern Central Luzon, Mark; Ateneo Dizon

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

In common usage and in psychology sumpong is considered a deviant and irrational behavior. Thisarticle makes sense of sumpong by putting it in the historical context of animism, specifically that of the eighteenth-century Aeta and Ilongot of eastern Central Luzon. As a form of perception, feeling, and action, sumpong was temporally flat since past, present, and future did not succeed one another in linear fashion. Based on historical dictionaries and usage, thisarticle explores the role of sumpong as an affective and culturally intelligible way of understanding and acting in the animist world as seen in cases of murder and religious …


Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar Feb 2015

Editor's Introduction, Jr. Aguilar

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Sacred Enchantment, Transnational Lives, And Diasporic Identity: Filipina Domestic Workers At St. John Catholic Cathedral In Kuala Lumpur, Josefina Socorro Tondo Oct 2014

Sacred Enchantment, Transnational Lives, And Diasporic Identity: Filipina Domestic Workers At St. John Catholic Cathedral In Kuala Lumpur, Josefina Socorro Tondo

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle explores how influences from the homeland as well as notions of identity, class, and ethical behavior form the Filipino diasporic community. These notions are the filters migrants use to view and understand their relations with host citizens, religious leaders, and employers. By providing an ethnographic account of Filipino migrants in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, thisarticle explores the connection between transnational migration, diaspora, and religion, highlighting the migrants’ exercise of agency, religiosity, and sociality as they construct and inscribe their identity.KEYWORDS: Transnational Migration • Diasporic Community • Religion • Sacred Space • Filipino Identity


The Mass Miracle: Public Religion In The Postwar Philippines, Deirdre De La Cruz Oct 2014

The Mass Miracle: Public Religion In The Postwar Philippines, Deirdre De La Cruz

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

From November 1948 to March 1949, petals of roses fell from the sky on the grounds outside of a Carmelite convent in the town of Lipa, Batangas. The petals and stories about them circulated at local, national, and international levels, giving rise to a variety of interpretations of their significance. Thisarticle examines the rose petals of Lipa as both a phenomenon to be mediated and a medium in its own right, in order to propose the need to rethink the common category of “popular religion.”KEYWORDS: Religion • Catholicism • The Mass Media • Miracles • Transnationalism


Guest Editor's Introduction, Jayeel S.; Cornelio Oct 2014

Guest Editor's Introduction, Jayeel S.; Cornelio

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


People Of God, People Of The Nation: Official Catholic Discourse On Nation And Nationalism, Sj Francisco Oct 2014

People Of God, People Of The Nation: Official Catholic Discourse On Nation And Nationalism, Sj Francisco

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Official collective statements of Catholic bishops construct and promote the imaginary of the Philippines as “Catholic nation.” This conflation of the body Catholic and the body politic has served as the church’s platform for defending its interests in education against perceived nationalist threats and for engaging social issues. Thisarticle traces the genealogy of this discourse and uncovers its distorted account of the Filipino nation’s emergence and its deductive pastoral logic. Given the inevitable link between “the religious” and “the secular,” the imaginary is challenged today by the call for greater inclusivity and the impact of digital connectivity on community, whether …


Marian Piety And Modernity: The Perpetual Help Devotion As Popular Religion In The Philippines, Manuel Victor Sapitula Oct 2014

Marian Piety And Modernity: The Perpetual Help Devotion As Popular Religion In The Philippines, Manuel Victor Sapitula

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle argues that Marian piety in the form of the Perpetual Help Devotion exemplifies “modern popular religion,” which has grown through mechanisms of strategic accommodation and creative refashioning in response to urban transitions in Metropolitan Manila and the ecclesiastical elites’ regulation of piety. Differences between religious authorities and devotees have produced diversified devotional practices, which retain their relevance due to an ethic of self-care that enables devotees to craft identities and self-understandings in the modern context. Rather than a threat, modernity provides opportunity structures and resources that enable religious beliefs and practices to respond to the exigencies of modernity.KEYWORDS: Popular …


Popular Religion And The Turn To Everyday Authenticity: Reflections On The Contemporary Study Of Philippine Catholicism, Jayeel S. Cornelio Oct 2014

Popular Religion And The Turn To Everyday Authenticity: Reflections On The Contemporary Study Of Philippine Catholicism, Jayeel S. Cornelio

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

The seminal works on everyday religion in the Philippines that appeared in the 1960s were motivated by pastoral concerns. Since the 1990s, however, there has been a growing interest in everyday religion as authentic expressions of what it means for individuals to be Catholic. This turn in the scholarship of social scientists and religious scholars has been driven less by the question of secularization than the demand for religion’s local relevance. Thisarticle explores the conditions under which the turn to authenticity has emerged in Philippine studies: the socioeconomic contexts, the expansion of the social sciences, the changing attitudes to religious …


Ethnography As An Act Of Witnessing: Doing Fieldwork On Passion Rituals In The Philippines, Julius Bautista, Peter J. Bräunlein Oct 2014

Ethnography As An Act Of Witnessing: Doing Fieldwork On Passion Rituals In The Philippines, Julius Bautista, Peter J. Bräunlein

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle juxtaposes two narrative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork on the Passion rituals of Central Luzon in the Philippines. Framed from two distinct cultural and temporal contexts, these narratives highlight the limits and the possibilities of reflexive participant observation in understanding and depicting Filipino religious culture. The authors problematize the assumption that the researcher is the sovereign determinant of fieldwork parameters and local “informants” are merely complicit with the former’s empirical strategies. The act of witnessing, they argue, is a fluid process of exchange conditioned by the expectations and desires of the researcher’s interlocutors and the researcher’s own anxieties over the …


Urban Religious Change At The Neoliberal Frontier: Notes Toward A Spatial Analysis Of A Contemporary Filipino Vernacular Catholicism, Paul-François Tremlett Oct 2014

Urban Religious Change At The Neoliberal Frontier: Notes Toward A Spatial Analysis Of A Contemporary Filipino Vernacular Catholicism, Paul-François Tremlett

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle sketches a theoretical point of departure for a spatial analysisof a contemporary Filipino vernacular Catholicism. Based on materialsfrom religious studies, the sociology of religion, and ethnographic andhistorical materials, it focuses on the new neoliberal spatial dynamicsof Manila and the extent to which recent shifts in its spatial constitutionmight be correlated with shifts in the sites and occasions of contemporaryCatholicism, and in particular with the emergence of El Shaddai. It asks: Ifincreasingly the neoliberal city is eviscerated of public and civic spaces, canEl Shaddai serve to revitalize and reenchant the city?KEYWORDS: Filipino Catholicism • Religious Change • Neoliberalism • Spatial …


The Early Periodicals Of The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (1903–1904) And The Emergence Of A Transregional And Transcontinental Indigenous-Christian Public Sphere, Adrian Hermann Oct 2014

The Early Periodicals Of The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (1903–1904) And The Emergence Of A Transregional And Transcontinental Indigenous-Christian Public Sphere, Adrian Hermann

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

The early periodicals of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), La Verdad (1903) and La Iglesia Filipina Independiente: Revista Católica (1903–1904), have been quoted as primary sources but have not been explored in their own right. Since its beginnings, the IFI understood itself as belonging to a transcontinental, global movement of independent Catholic churches. The periodicals published various letters that the IFI had received from foreign Catholic groups that were similarly independent of Rome. This research note focuses on these periodicals and locates the IFI in an emerging transregional and transcontinental indigenous-Christian public sphere.Keywords: Iglesia Filipina Independiente • Periodicals • Indigenous-Christian …


Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory Of The Santo Niño De Cebu By Julius J. Bautista, Review Author: Concepcion Oct 2014

Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory Of The Santo Niño De Cebu By Julius J. Bautista, Review Author: Concepcion

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.