E. Arsenio Manuel Best Student Paper Award

E. ARSENIO MANUEL BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

41st Annual Conference

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)

Anthropological Association of the Philippines

07-09 November 2019
Visayas State University, Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines

ELIGIBILITY

Accepted paper submissions from students (enrolled undergraduate or graduate students at the time of the conference) are eligible to participate in the E. Arsenio Manuel Best Student Paper Award. The author(s) must indicate in the Abstract Submission Form that they intend to participate in the competition. The competing papers must also be orally presented during the conference.

FORMAT

Document: A4 paper size, 1-inch margin on all sides, TNR 12, 1.5 space
Content: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Body, References (Aghamtao citation style)
Length: minimum of 3,000 words, maximum of 5,000 words
Author identification: on a cover page, indicate the full name(s) of the author(s), contact details (email and mobile), institutional affiliation, and degree program; do not indicate author(s)’s name in the paper

SUBMISSION

File: name the doc file as "(last name of author)_StudentPaper_UGAT2019" - e.g., Cruz_StudentPaper_UGAT2019 (if multiple authors, indicate first author only)
Email: send the paper as doc file (not pdf) to ugat.conference@gmail.com using the file name of the doc file as the subject
Due: 31 October 2019

AWARD

Submissions will be duly notified. A board of judges will evaluate all submissions. The award will be given during the Closing Ceremony of the 41st UGAT Annual Conference. Aside from a certificate, the winning paper will also be automatically accepted (subject to the editorial process) for the next issue of Aghamtao, the official journal publication of UGAT.

E. Arsenio Manuel sketch by Angeli Marie G. Narvaez for Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino 

Reference: https://www.facebook.com/ugat1978/photos/a.728986934224815/798642930592548/

Who's in the shoes of E. Arsenio Manuel now?

Who's in the shoes of E. Arsenio Manuel now?

STELLA A. ESTREMERA
04 March 2017

FOR so many years now, maybe a decade, maybe more, but since I bought the book, "Manuvu Social Organization" I have been a fan of its author E. Arsenio Manuel.

But being out here in a southern city, tracking the man was impossible. Tracking his books is even difficult, much more the man. It was devastating to learn later on that the one author whose books I have been praying to collect has died in 2003.

From the few books that I have that were written by him, and several others where his works are included, I imagine how he went from village to village to explore the Manuvu communities in the 1960s when logging has not yet decimated the forests of Davao and Cotabato. I imagine meeting up with the datus he was able to meet and listening to their songs and epics.

Now, as I read through his books once more, I cannot help but wonder, who has taken up the tasks that he has left unfinished? He himself admitted that there were more stories and songs to record.

Along that line I can't help but rant at our basic education system and why the Department of Education cannot be pushed to make textbooks that carry the legends and epics and myths of Mindanao tribes. Why they insist on still feeding us the Legend of Lam-ang, when Lam-ang, the Ilocano strongman is but a puny epic hero when compared to the epic heroes of Mindanao.

Lam-ang, as our grade school textbooks say, only had brawn. Mindanao's super heroes had shields that fly and carry their masters to wherever they wanted to go, they had powers to make themselves as tiny insects that can enter their enemies' noses to kill from the inside or turn themselves into a pond a solid rock or an animal. They rode their spears and fly up the skies, they can bring back dead people to life.

But no, our students do not know about this. They know Superman and Ironman and Spiderman and just about every superhero in the Marvel comic books, but they do not have any idea who Tuwaang, Tulalang, Lumabet, Agyu, and Dumiwata are. Our children do not know about how the Sinalimba carries people to the heavens, and they are not even aware that in the Mindanaoan myths and epics and legends, whole villages rose up to heaven. We reserved that for our saints, and yes, Jesus Christ and Mother Mary. How much more colorful our schoolrooms would have been had our children been made to feast on the exploits of these epic heroes and met the Alingase (Aligase, depending on which tribe and village you are talking to), the one-eyed giant that seem to have a penchant for cutting down mountains.

Imagine, these are but a few of the tribal heroes and do not yet include the gods and demigods that took care of the land.

Reading through the relatively few books I have, I can lose myself in imagination as I see the epic heroes flying around while in battle, riding their shields and spears and hats, and dancing so hard, they could make the earth shake and crumble, while their women folks cast betel chews to bring warriors back to life, and all other stuff that only people living in the vast forests of Mindanao can ever imagine and weave into a tale.

How is it to live in the Skyworld inhabited by the supreme god and other major gods and goddesses, how is it to live in the underworld with Maivuyan (Mebuyan) and Tuhawa? How is it to live in the land of the swaying country? I can only wonder and wish that there will be an effort to put all these into storybooks that children can appreciate and make stories about, just as they do after watching yet another Marvel comic book story turned film.

I'm doing a bit of writing now, children's storybooks, but it's a mish-mash of originals and adaptations, and that's just me. Just one me. With the loads of myths and epics out there in Mindanao, we need a whole army to make a dent. Any takers?

*****

saestremera@yahoo.com

https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/129486/Lifestyle/Estremera-Whos-in-the-shoes-of-E-Arsenio-Manuel-now

E. Arsenio Manuel, University of the Philippines, Diliman

E. ARSENIO MANUEL, 94

Professor Emeritus

Department of Anthropology

University of the Philippines, Diliman

1909 - 2003

DEAN OF PHILIPPINE Anthropology and Father of Philippine Folklore Dr. E. Arsenio Manuel passed away last December 27, two weeks after he celebrated his 94th birthday. He leaves behind three sons, three daughters, 16 grandchildren, a sister, two brothers, and son-in-law Dr. Vivencio Jose of the UP Diliman Department of English and Comparative Literature. He was married to the late Magdalena Avenir Manuel. His remains lay in state at Claret Chapel until January 4 at UP Village before being moved to the UP Chapel prior to interment on January 7 at Himlayang Pilipino, all in Quezon City.

Born in Santo Domingo, Nueva Ecija, to a Filipino-American War veteran and town mayor and his wife, Manuel earned his Ll.B. at the University of Manila in 1935, his M.A. at the University of the Philippines in 1954, and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1969. He worked as a student assistant in the UP Department of Anthropology from 1927 to 1929; and in the period of 1929 to 1945 as library assistant to College of Law librarian. From 1948 until his retirement in 1976, he went from instructor to full professor of Anthropology; after which he was conferred the title of professor emeritus in the second semester of AY 2001-2002.

His numerous awards include the 1989 CCP Gawad Para sa Sining, the 1991 National Social Scientist Award, and the 2000 Dangal Alab ng Haraya Award by the National Commission for Culture and Arts for a lifetime achievement in cultural research. His more-than-half-a-century work in anthropology includes research and documentation of the Manuvu community in Mindanao and the discovery and publication of three ethnoepics from three ethnic groups: the Manuvu, the Matigsalug, and the Ilianon. He also studied Bagobo folklore and made a survey of Philippine folk epics. His work greatly enriched Philippine anthropology, history, literature, and linguistics.

http://newsletter.up.edu.ph/previous/2004jan07.htm#obituary