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The Anthropologist as Advocate
The study of human cultures and societies is especially relevant today as a tool for understanding the contemporary world. Far from the world sought to be understood by the founding fathers of Anthropology, the world now presents new challenges as well as opportunities for the development of the discipline. This is a world encountering a different Continue reading
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A Critical Perspective to National and Local Policies on Climate Change and Health Resource Access: The Case of South Cotabato
Introduction It is now an accepted fact that the aggregated impacts of human population size and economic activity on various biophysical systems of the world has drastically contributed to widespread environmental changes. The most alarming and extensive of these environmental changes is anthropogenic climate change, with the hydrological and atmospheric systems of the planet exceeding Continue reading
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Fatalism in a Hostile Geography? The Case of Albay in the Pacific Jinx
A Memory I remember very clearly, as if it was just yesterday, the howling wind outside, and a more terrifying sound that echoed inside the cavities of our house in Naga, Camarines Sur that 30th of November 2006. They were long howls, whistling as the 250 kph gusts meet trees, buildings and wreckage, the howling Continue reading
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On Anthropologists and Ethnic Conflicts
The traditional domain of the Anthropologist has been the small community, often in what has been coined as “indigenous peoples,” while his ethnography and holism in analyzing phenomena are his tools-of-the-trade that enable him to understand the “understanding of the other”. At present, there has been an increased interest in the social sciences in the Continue reading
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Developmentspeak of “Populorum Progressio (1967)”
Any attempt at exploring the different discourses on development – its nature, extent, and meaning(s) – needs to also consider the language, context and content of the Catholic Social Teaching (CST) on development especially in the Papal encyclical Populorum Progressio (trans. “On the Development of Peoples,” abbreviated to PP). It needs special consideration because of Continue reading
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Examining the Vision of Mindanao 2020
The Mindanao 2020 Peace and Development Framework Plan is, in itself, a remarkable attempt at collaboration and clear-sightedness. The document is built on the idea that the situation in Mindanao must be changed and that the problem must be addressed at its roots. But in every development framework, one must ask several questions: 1) Development Continue reading
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Re-imagining the Balyana Priestess in Pre-hispanic Bikol
This article is an attempt to study the [mga] balyana or priestesses of Bikol and analyze some of the names in the epic-fragment of Ibalon and practices of the ancient religion as cited in the Lisboa dictionary (1754). It features three images/personalities: the Balyana, the Asog and Oryol. Balyana and Asog Many would define a priestess as Continue reading
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Ang Hapag-Kainan Bilang Talinghaga sa Paglinang ng Pambansang Pagkakakilanlan
Noong nakaraang National Archives Congress (17-18 ng Nobyembre 2012) na isinagawa sa Pamantasan ng Ateneo de Davao, tinanong ni Paring Bert Alejo, SJ kung ano ang pambansang pagkain ng Pilipinas. Madali rin ang aking sagot, na kulang na lang binatong pasigaw sa naglelektyur na pari, na lechon (lechon!) ang pambansang pagkain. Bakit nga ba hindi Continue reading
Being Here, Now. 