UGAT 24th Annual Conference - Rootwork and Network

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

The 24th National UGAT Conference
"ROOTWORK AND NETWORK: WEAVING MINDANAO ANTHROPOLOGY"
8-10 April 2002, Island Garden City of Samal


How has Mindanao been imagined, taught, and studied?
What are the cultural dimensions of the so-called Mindanao conflict?
What indigenous energies can be tapped for peace?
How do we celebrate diversity and creativity in the face
of global economy and information technology?
What do anthropologists have to say about development,
missionary work, Islamic movements, and Lumad struggle?
And how can voices from grassroots initiatives
challenge professional practice in anthropology?

These and other questions promise to enrich our conversation on the southern Philippines. This three-day conference is designed to consolidate our insights from decades of fieldwork and archival work in Mindanao. It promises to generate new research approaches to match the urgency and complexity of Mindanao issues. Aside from commissioned papers on the past, present and prospects of anthropology in Mindanao, the conference highlights the following topics for panel discussion:

1. Mindanao Archaeology, History, and Ecology
2. Indigenous Art, Music and Ritual
3. Cultures of Peace, Violence and Development
4. Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Mindanao

Other features of the conference includes:

1. Special recognition to eminent Mindanao scholars: Schlegel, Maceda, Solheim, Bernad, Schreurs, Madale and Nimmo
2. Visit to Samal caves, and dinner with City officials
3. Dialogue with grassroots anthropologists and advocates
4. Launching of MA and PhD in Anthropology with special reference to Mindanao
5. Showing of documentary film on indigenous peoples, produced by PCIJ
6. Poster presentation (not limited to Mindanao issues), book sale, and book launching

The conference fee of PhP 2,500 includes kit, cultural show, and board and lodging from the evening of 7 April to the afternoon of 10 April, 2002. For cheaper accommodation, especially for students and observers, please inquire at the Secretariat.

Due to limited number of cottages, we sincerely recommend that you make your reservation through fax or email by 25 February 2002.

For more information, please contact the secretariat:

Penny Sans or Perpy Tio
Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue
Ateneo de Davao University, 8000 Davao City
Tel. (082) 2212411, loc. 8724, 8716
Fax (082) 2212411, loc. 8267
Email: ugat_2002@yahoo.com

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Convenor Albert E. Alejo, SJ (Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue)
Head of Secretariat Penny Sanz (ADDU Business Administration Division)

Staff:

Perpy Tio (Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue)
Meong Cabarde (ADDU Social Science Division)
Pam Castrillo (ADDU Humanities Division)
Bebeth (ADDU Social Research, Training & Development Office)
Paul Tuvillo (STI Computer Education)
Macky Homez, Maybelle, Melrose, Rey of IGACOS City Government Office
Documentation Mindanews writers

*In cooperation with the Mindanao Consortium for Professional Practice in Anthropology, Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue, Social Science and Education Division of Ateneo de Davao University, Philippine Social Science Council, and the City Government of the Island Garden City of Samal.

UGAT 24th Annual Conference - Schedule of Presentation

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

24th Annual Conference
"ROOTWORK AND NETWORK:WEAVING MINDANAO ANTHROPOLOGY"
8-10 April 2002, Samal Island, Davao City
Co-Sponsored by The Mindanao Consortium for Professional Practice in Anthropology and the Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue, Ateneo de Davao University

SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATION

Introductory Paper

Linda Burton (Xavier University)
Karl Gaspar CSsR (Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue)
Albert E. Alejo SJ (Ateneo de Davao University)
Mindanao anthropology: Past, present and prospects

Panel 1: Mindanao Archaeology, History and Ecology
Convenor: Linda Burton (Xavier University)

Israel Cabanilla (University of the Philippines –Diliman)
Linking with the past

Margarita Cojuangco (University of Sto. Tomas)
Iranun historiographical contours of Central Mindanao: The Subpangan principality and the Pulangi River-Illana bay corridor, 1515-1765

Manuel R. Labrador (University of Mindanao)
Mandabon and the origin of Monkayo (A historical and social anthropological perspective)

Antonio J. Montalvan II (Lyceo de Cagayan University)
An Overview of Higaonon Decline in Northern Mindanao

Aurora Roxas-Lim (University of the Philippines – Asian Center)
Analysis of the Butuan archeological finds: Implications on Asian linkages

Panel 2: Indigenous Art, Music and Ritual
Convenor: Jose Buenconsejo (University of the Philippines, Diliman)

Honey Libertine Achanzar (University of the Philippines – Manila)
Indigenous concepts of power and the artisan’s muse

Manolete Mora (University of Hong Kong)
Body and Soul: Adeptness and Musical Performance

Maria Carmen Domingo Kirk (San Francisco Unified School District)
A Manobo feminist practice in the oral epic Agyu: A tradition of healing

Virginia L. Buhisan (MSU General Santos City)
Tudbulul: Hlingon tuha logi (The Song of the old Tboli man)

Jose S. Buenconsejo (University of the Philippines, Diliman)
Subjectivity in Agusan Manobo song Ted-em

Grassroots Dialogue

Elders of the Tagbaobo community (Isama of IGACOS)
Datu Camid Lapindoy (Ata-Matigsalug from Paquibato District, Davao)
Datu Al Saliling (Aromanon from Arakan Valley, Cotabato)

Workshop on Ethnographic Writing

Maria Mangahas (University of the Philippines, Diliman)
Superimposition of power in the landscape of a new city: Current narratives of location in Samal island

Karl Gaspar, CSsR
Facilitator

Panel 3: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Mindanao
Convenor: Floro Quibuyen (University of the Philippines – Visayas)

Herry Yogaswara (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)
Constructing image: The Indonesian perspective of Mindanao

Gus Miclat (Initiatives for International Dialogue)
Solidarity and the Mindanao struggle

Floro Quibuyen (University of the Philippines – Visayas)
Wayfinding - A “Disappeared” Knowledge in the Philippine Pre-history and anthropology

Aurora Roxas-Lim (University of the Philippines - Asian Center)
An overview of growth triangle: BIMP-EAGA

Panel 4: Cultures of Peace, Violence and Development
Convenor: Albert E. Alejo, SJ

Cynthia Neri Zayas (University of the Philippines –Diliman)
Shifting anchorage and violence in the lives of the Badjao

Anthony R. Balisi (University of the Philippines – Diliman)
Panandayuhan at pag-aangkop: Ang usapin ng mga Badjao ng Mindanao

Nimfa Bracamonte (Mindanao State University – Iligan)
Survival in an urban setting: Where to, Sama Dilaut?

Vel J. Suminguit, Ma. Easterluna S. Canoy and Merlyne M. Paunlagui
Creating Space For Local Forest Management: A Case Study In Sitio Kiito

Rudy Rodil (Mindanao State University – Iligan)
Dyandi among the B’laan

Mac Tiu (Ateneo de Davao University)
‘Huwes de kutsilyo’: Kultura sa kaparotan

Ruben Martinez (Organization for Training, Research and Development Foundation)
Negotiations and compromise on Mindanao peace and development: Implication to the resolution of conflicting issue of equity, growth and ecology

Herbert Rosana (Bicol University)
Human rights education concept towards building a culture of peace:
Implications to tertiary education

Arnold Azurin (University of the Philippines – Diliman)
The dialectic of war and peace since the pre-Islamic Mindanao till the present

UGAT 24th Annual Conference - Rootwork and Network: Weaving Mindanao Anthropology

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

24th Annual Conference
"ROOTWORK AND NETWORK:WEAVING MINDANAO ANTHROPOLOGY"
8-10 April 2002, Samal Island, Davao City
Co-Sponsored by The Mindanao Consortium for Professional Practice in Anthropology and the Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue, Ateneo de Davao University

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

What are the cultural dimensions of the so-called Mindanao conflict? What indigenous energies can be tapped for peace? How do we deal with politicized histories and sensationalized media images? How do we celebratecultural diversity and musical creativity as we face a globalized economy and an all-pervading information technology? What have the related disciplines of archaeology, ethnomusicology, political anthropology and anthropology of religion, got to say about development plans, missionarywork, Islamic movements, and ecological advocacy? And how does an engaged cultural analysis of tri-people Mindanao challenge our professional practice of anthropology?

These and other questions promise to enrich our conversation on the southern Philippines during the 24th National UGAT Conference. This gathering ofexperience and expectation is designed to consolidate anthropological insights culled during the past decades of anthropological fieldwork in Mindanao, as well as to generate new approaches that would match the challenges of Mindanao issues and initiatives.

During the conference, veteran anthropologists Stuart Schlegel, Marcelino Maceda, Wilhelm Solheim and Harry Arlo Nimmo will be given special recognition. So graduate students of anthropology will have a chance to meet those who have paved the way toward the anthropology of Mindanao. The conference will definitely be an occasion for tracing the roots of Mindanao cultures as well as for building networks for a professional career incultural research.

A number of authors have been commissioned to speak on the past, present and prospects of anthropology in this island. Several panels, however, are still being organized. Researchers and advocates alike are invited to join any one of the following thematic groups:

1.) Mindanao archaeology, history, and ecology
Contact Linda Burton, PhD.
Director RIMCU, Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City
Email: lburton@xavier.cc.xu.edu.ph)

2.) Indigenous art, music and performance
Contact Jose Buenconsejo, PhD.
Chair, Dept. of Music Research, UP College of Music,
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
Email: buenconsejo@skyinet.net)

3.) Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Development
Contact Sr. Pat Babiera, OND.
Notre Dame University, Cotabato City
Email: srpatgbabiera@eudoramail.com)

4.) Islam, Gender, and Globalization
Contact Rufa Guiam, PhD.
Director, Research Center Mindanao State University
General Santos City, South Cotabato
Email: rufamor@gsc.weblinq.com)

One other panel may be formed depending on the early submission of interesting papers that do not fall within these categories. Posters and video presentation are also welcome.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: January 15, 2002. Please submit abstracts to your respective panel convenors.

Selected papers from the conference shall be published in an edited volume on Mindanao anthropology. To increase your chances of being included in this anthology (not just "proceedings"), please submit your full-length paper on or before March 22, 2002.

For other information, please contact
Albert E. Alejo, SJ, PhD,
Mindanawon Initiatives for Cultural Dialogue
Ateneo de Davao University, 8000 Davao City.
Tel. 082-2212411, loc. 8724, 8716. Fax 082-2212411, loc. 8267.
Email: paringbert@yahoo.com

UGAT 23rd Annual Conference - Bridging the Generations in Philippine Anthropology

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

23rd Annual Conference
"Bridging the Generations in Philippine Anthropology"
21-23 October 2001
U.P., Diliman, Quezon City
Sponsor: Dept. of Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Diliman

The UGAT (Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao, Inc. --Anthropological Association of the Philippines) is holding its 23rd Annual National Conference this October 21-23 at the Bulwagang Recto, in F.C. , UP Diliman.

The theme of the conference is "Bridging the Generations in Philippine ANthropology" and the speakers will be mainly the senior members of the profession--to reflect back on the paths they have taken--, and those who have recently gained graduate degrees in Anthropology--to share their new research findings and methodology.

Download proceedings here:

http://rapidshare.de/files/39513898/UGAT-23rd.rar.html

Aghamtao 10

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 10 / 2001

Source:

Private Collection

UGAT 23th Annual Conference - Schedule of Presentation

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

23rd Annual Conference
"Bridging the Generations in Philippine Anthropology"
21-23 October 2001
U.P., Diliman, Quezon City
Sponsor: Dept. of Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Diliman

SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATION

Sunday, October 21, 2001
Venue: Balay Kalinaw, UP Diliman

Late Afternoon/Evening Session

Registration

Opening Remarks
UGAT President, Leonardo Estacio, Jr.

Welcome
UP Dept of Anthropology Chair, Michael L. Tan

Introduction of Honoree Dr. E. Arsenio Manuel
Lerma Yambot

“Tributes (Academic and Anecdotal) to E. Arsenio Manuel, Exemplary Fieldworker and Exacting Teacher” by his students

Visual Presentation: “Five generations of Philippine Anthropologists”
Ma. Luisa Fernan, Eufracio Abaya, Israel Cabanilla

DINNER
(hosted by: University of the Philippines College and University Officials)

Monday, October 22, 2001
Venue: Recto Hall, Faculty Center

Morning Session

ON PHILIPPINE ANTHROPOLOGY

F. Landa Jocano (PUNLAD)
“Looking Back at the Highlights of Philippine Anthropology: My Generation”

Raul Pertierra (Ateneo de Manila)
“The Role of Anthropology in Philippine Studies”

Zeus Salazar (de la Salle University)
“Arkeolohiya at Etnograpiya, Tipolohiya o Kultura? (Ilang Suliranin ng Pagtitingin sa Kaso ng Ilaw at ng Sagisag ng araw sa Kapilipinuhan)”

Prospero Covar (UP)
“Teaching Filipino Language And Culture”

Nicole Revel (CNRS)
“Epics and Oral Tradition in the Philippines”

Yasushi Kikuchi (Waseda University/Harvard)
“Philippine Anthropology From the Eyes of a Japanese Anthropologist”

POSTER SESSIONS (venue: Galleria 1)

VIDEO Showing and Q & A (venue: Recto Hall)
“Mula Pabrika Hanggang Fukuoka”
Ditsi Carolino and Sadhana Buxani,
(produced by Ateneo Center for Social Policy/Archdiocese of Manila Labor Center)

Afternoon Session

ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: HOUSEHOLDS AND RESOURCES

Mary Racelis (IPC)
“Understanding Poverty”

Aurora Vistro (UP)
“Household Dynamics: Decision Making, Cash Flows and Labor Exchanges”

Wilfredo Torres III (Notre Dame of Jolo College)
“Household Strategies, Gender and Sea Tenure: A Study of a Sama Dilaut Community in Kabuukan Island, Hadji Panglima Tahil, Sulu”

Maria F. Mangahas (UP)
“Fishing and Sharing (Households, Communities and the Commons)”

Ma. Paz Palis (Quezon City)
“Tumandok/Pangayaw: Identity, Power and Resource Use In a Visayan Island”

Open Forum

Evening Session

UGAT General Assembly
Venue: PCED

Report of the UGAT President/Officers
Leonardo Estacio, Jr.

Election of New Board Members

Dinner Program: poetry reading, sayawan, atbp…

Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Morning Session

PRE-HISTORY, HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY

Floro Quibuyen (UP Visayas)
“Wayfinding—A ‘Disappeared’ Knowledge in Philippine Pre-History and Anthropology”

Victor Paz (Archeological Studies Program, UP)
“Better suites than packages: understanding early population and cultural dispersal in Island Southeast Asia”

Shinzo Hayase (Osaka City University)
"Historico-Geographical World of Sangir: An Ethno-history of East Maritime Southeast Asia"

William Longacre (Arizona/UP Dept of Anthropology)
“30 Years of Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology”

Armand Salvador B. Mijares (National Museum and Anthropology Watch)
“Minori Cave Andesite Flakes: An Expedient Lithic Technology in Northern Luzon Philippines”

Open Forum

Afternoon Session

Paper/Presentation or discussion by undergraduate/s: Physical Anthropology

LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY/ADVOCACY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Presentation/discussion by an IP representative

Owen Lynch (CIEL)
“Indigenous Rights in the context of the Philippines' History and Future."

Augusto B. Gatmaytan (Davao City)
“Constructions in Conflict: Manobo Tenure as Critique of Law”

Padmapani L. Perez (Pasay City)
“Pen and Paper, Mind and Heart, Hand and Mirror: An Exercise in Reflexivity”

Ponciano Bennagen (SENTRO)
“The Anthropologist is Dead: Long Live Anthropology”

Open Forum

Synthesis/Thanks & Acknowledgements
Leonardo Estacio, Jr.

Closing Remarks/Invitation to the 24th UGAT National Conference in Davao
Albert Alejo, SJ

Evening Session

UGAT Board Meeting
(venue: PCED)

UGAT 23th Annual Conference - Call for Poster Presentations

Dear Members and Friends,

Below you will find the tentative program for the UGAT conference. Kindly help us disseminate the information to other interested participants. We already have a DECS memorandum to help you formalize your leave. Pls. check out www.decs.gov.ph memo#49.

The call for posters is still open to students, graduate students, institutions and other participants. Share with us your new projects, research findings or even your thesis and dissertation! Poster size should be 30"x40" or a whole illustration board. Limited slots (20 - 25). Kindly confirm with us your interest so we can make arrangements for other materials you might need.

We will appreciate if you can also confirm your attendance to the dinner presentation.

Let us know of your needs. We hope to see you in Manila!



Melanie Uy
The Working Committee
UGAT 2001 Conference
email: ugat2001@hotmail.com

UGAT Office
Rm. 208, Philippine Social Science Center
Commonwealth Avenue
Diliman, Quezon City
Philippines

phone: (+63 2) 4561918
FAX: (+63 2) 9202197



Tentative Program Link: http://ugat-aap.blogspot.com/2001/09/ugat-23th-annual-conference-schedule-of.html

UGAT 19th Annual Conference - In Photos

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

19th Annual Conference
TERRITORIALITY, HISTORIES AND IDENTITIES
29-31 October 1997
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

IN PHOTOS

 Boi Abaya

 Maria Mahangas /  Sweet Cabanilla / Lerma de Lima-Yambot

Datu Antonio Lumandong, Kahiusahan sa mga Higaonon, Inc. (KHI)

Satur Ocampo / Eizel Hilario / Anthony John Balisi / Betch Mercado

Aghamtao 8

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 8 / 1996


Citation:

Aghamtao 8.
Selected Papers from National Conferences of UGAT.

*UGAT Conferences: “Anthropology of Development,” Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Sta. Mesa, Manila; “Sustainability of Development: Anthropological Perspective,” University of san Carlos, Cebu City; “The Anthropology of Transformation: Issues and Concerns of Industrialization and Development,” Mindanao State Unviersity, General Santos, Cotabato; and “The Anthropology of Disaster,” Central Luzon State University, Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

Quezon City: Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc.

Daisy Y. Noval-MoralesEditor in Chief

Eufracio C. Abaya
Maria Luisa Lucas-FernanEditorial Board

Table of Contents:

Preface
Eufracio C. Abaya

Mataw Fishing in Batanes
Maria F. Mangahas

The Ivatan Cultural Adaptation to Typhoons: A Portrait of a Self-Reliant Community from the Indigenous Development Perspectives
Fr. Raymundo Rede Blolong, SVD

Ormoc Revisited: Initial and Long Term Stress Reactions and Coping Responses of Disaster Victims
Patricia Rosario E. Alix

Higugmaa and Diyos, Kahadloki ang Diyos (Love God, Fear God: Post-Ormoc Disaster Mass Hysteria in an Urban Center
Jose Eleazar R. Bersales and Fiscalina A. Nolasco

Amin Ito: Who Controls “Disaster Management”?
Ponciano L. Bennagen

Ang Antropolohiya ng Disaster sa Punto-de-Bista ng mga Ayta (Ang Mga Ayta ng Banawan, Maloma, San Felipe, Zambales, Bilang Isang Halimbawa)
Leonardo R. Estacio, Jr.

Anthropology and Disaster: Deforestation
Daylinda B. Cabanilla

Higaonons and Bukidnon Forests Incorporated: “Will the Twain Ever Meet?”
Levita Duhaylungsod

Sipag, Tiyaga at Tipid: Women in Shoe Manufacturing
Zenaida Quesada-Reyes

Ethnic and Gender Dimensions of Indigenous Knowledge: The Case of the Maranao Muslims’ Sweetpotato Production
Belita Amihan-Vega

Ethnography or Espionage: The Problem of Ethics in Philippine Anthropology
Nestor T. Castro

Museology, Identity and the Transformation of Material Culture
Ana P. Labrador

The Contributors

Download Articles Here: 

http://116.50.242.171/PSSC/index.php/agt01/issue/view/205

Source:

Private Collection

Aghamtao 8: Preface

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 8 / 1996



Preface

This journal puts together a selection of papers read in annual UGAT conferences* held in various settings at different times (1991 to 1995). It brings to bear viewpoints expressed by local anthropologists and related practitioners regarding the anthropology of development and sustainability, disaster, gender, ethnicity, and the practice of anthropology itself. More importantly, it is the intention of these papers to promote anthropological perspectives as options in academic and development endeavors.

The tenacity of indigenous knowledge and practices serves as the point of departure of Mangahas’ and Blolong’s papers. Mangahas provides a rich description of the mataw, a traditional mode of using and managing fisheries among the Ivatans of Batanes, and calls attention to the conflicts brought about by the introduction of new technologies. She observes that existing state development policies are insensitive to local modes of resource management, hence the need for a critical examination of such policies. Relatedly, Blolong takes an adaptionist model of culture in arguing for the strengths of Ivatan coping strategies to an environment frequently hit by typhoons. These strategies are manifested in their agricultural practices and material culture.

Disasters and their impact on people’s lives constitute another subject matter in this volume, albeit treated in various ways by contributors. Stress reactions and coping responses among the ‘victims’ of the catastrophic flood that occurred in Ormoc on November 5, 1991 are examined by Alix using a psychological framework. For Alix, stress reactions and coping strategies are mediated by such factors as gender, age, and the workings of multiple stressors.

Popular awareness of the Ormoc tragedy provided the stage for the mass hysteria that occurred in Cebu City, as presented in the paper of Bersales and Nolasco. This mass hysteria was triggered by a letter aired over a local radio station urging people to post signs in their homes and public spaces carrying the message “Love (higugmaa) God, fear (kahadloki) God.” Failure to do so, according to the news, would lead to a disaster worse that that which occurred in Ormoc. The authors, by and large, attributed this phenomenon to the characteristic Cebuano religiosity and moral values, following partly theoretical lead of symbolic anthropology like Geertz.

In a certain sense, the separate papers of Bennagen and Estacio took a different theoretical stance in exploring the dynamics of disaster management, using the ase of Ayta communities affected by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. Rejecting conventional knowledge that sees disaster during victims as passive actors, both authors provide concrete ethnographic example to illustrate that active role played by the Aytas in managing their lives. In particular, Bennagen showed the ways in which the Aytas have subverted the representations and actions of the state in the formulation and implementation of disaster management programs. This process, according to him may be attributed to the “mediating role of the value-driven NGO and … high level political consciousness of the community which allows it to draw on its own cultural resources.” In addition, it is Bennagen’s contention that sustainability could be achieved through a process of community organizing that derives its framework and strategies from community traditions. On the other hand, Estacio provides a processual view of how an Ayta community has struggled against both the encroachment of outsiders upon their ancestral lands as well as the culturally-insensitive state-led resettlement schemes. This case study brings to bear the ways in which victims of disaster draw on their cultural resources, including indigenous knowledge systems and practices, to define and act upon pressures from external forces.

Deforestation lends itself to a critical anthropological analysis, a position taken by Cabanilla in analyzing the issue of deforestation in the Philippines. Drawing on the tradition of holism and cultural analysis, she calls attention to the limitations of existing official definitions of deforestation as these fails to situate the problem within wider social and cultural contexts. In arguing so, she maintains that deforestation is caused by state, private, and military interests. Like most of the contributors to this volume, she underscored the importance of local knowledge and community participation in development programs.

Again, the theme of human agency in social development resonates in Duhaylungsod’s paper. She critically examines the role played by internal colonialism (as expressed in state policies) and capitalist expansion in the invasion of Higaonon ancestral domain. Specifically, she takes up the case of the state-initiated Bukidnon Forest Incorporated, which suffers from a limited understand of the issue of ancestral domain as well as absence of genuine initiatives to engage local participation in program management.

Local anthropologists contribute to the discourse on gender as exemplified by the separate papers of Quesada-Reyes and Amihan-Vega. The first keys in the strategies women employ as shoe factory workers in asserting their position as productive agents in local economy as they deviate from traditional roles engendered by the workings of the ideology of patriarchy, grounded in local forms of understanding. In effect, her paper provides an antidote to the artificial application of Western feminist perspectives in local gender studies. The second paper, on the other hand, factors in gender, along with ethnicity, in the analysis of indigenous knowledge in sweetpotato production among the Maranao. In doing so, it emphasizes the notion of complementarity between male and female roles in agricultural production – an observation that contributes to the critique of Western feminism that gives primary to ‘difference’ over ‘complementarity’ in gender relations.

Part of the analysis of anthropology of development is the issue of professional ethics. Castro takes a reflexive mode in writing about ethics in anthropological work. He pays heed to the call for greater observance of ethics among anthropologists, whose profession has been historically linked with colonization and counterinsurgency. His paper is an important reminder for local anthropologists involved in development work to deepen their consciousness of the politics of data collection and dissemination. Here, the process of the human subjects is of paramount importance. With this in mind, he strongly suggests a reexamination of UGAT’s code of ethics.

The politics of identity formations and legitimation is another issue that invariably interests local anthropologists. The final paper by Labrador attests to this. She examines the process of identity formation through the technologies of ethnographic museums, arguing against the fixity of identities. She brings into light the contested character of ethnicities in a given political economic formation. Museums, among other settings, Labrador contends, create identities. Objects are, in effect, invested with the power to mark ethnicities.

Finally, these annual conferences were attended by representatives of the academe, non-governmental organizations, the government, and people’s organizations. This is reflective of the agenda of UGAT to surface relevant and urgent issues and to foster exchange swirling around the discipline’s theoretical and methodological concerns.

Eufracio C. Abaya
President, UGAT

Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines : Knowledge, Power and Struggles

Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines : Knowledge, Power and Struggles : Proceedings of the UGAT 18th National Conference, October 17-19, 1996, La Trinidad, Benguet. 

Citation:

Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (1996). Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines : Knowledge, Power and Struggles : Proceedings of the UGAT 18th National Conference, October 17-19, 1996, La Trinidad, Benguet.  Quezon City : UGAT (Ugnayang Pang-Agham Tao, University of the Philippines).

GN 671 P5 U32 1996

158 pp.

From:

http://ilib.upd.edu.ph/servlet/template/opac%2CDetails.vm/type/brief/from/search?marcid=275532

UGAT 17th Annual Conference - In Photos

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

17th Annual Conference
ANTHROPOLOGY OF DISASTER 
26-28 October 1995
Nueva Ecija

IN PHOTOS

 Pons Bennagen 

 Boi Abaya

Angelo Bernardo / Joji Roquia  

 Sweet Cabanilla 

 Raul Pertierra 

 Jaja Paulate / Etoy Castro / Zandro Villanueva 

Jun Estacio

In honor of our beloved Aling Naty

In honor of our beloved Aling Naty

Let us pause for a few minutes from our work and pray for the soul of Miss Natividad Noriega, “Aling Naty”, as she was fondly called by her friends.

Miss Noriega exemplified a loyal U.P. administrative employee. As curator of the National Institute of Geological Sciences in Diliman, she kept the University’s mineralogical, petrological and paleontological collections in order. She pursued her work with dedication and excellence.

Miss Noriega underwent intensive training in curatorial work here and abroad. When the late Dr. Otley Beyer turned over his collections to U.P., he stipulated in the contract that Miss Noriega should take care of and manage the collections. It is well-known in scientific circles how meticulous Dr. Beyer treated his lifetime collections; to have designated Miss Norlega to take charge of these priceless artifacts is indeed proof of her reliability and integrity.

Miss Noriega, was truly an example of a Pahinungód, a person whose daily life was given in service to God and her fellow human beings. Miss Noriega leaves a special heritage of dedicated service and honor that we in the University of the Philippines value and are proud of.



Emil Q. Javier
President, University of the Philippines, 1993-1999
19 September 1994

UGAT 16th Annual Conference

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines

“The Anthropology of Transformation”

14-16 April 1994, Mindanao State Universty, General Santos City

Aghamtao 7

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 7 / 1990


Citation:

To be uploaded soon

Table of Contents:

Testimonial to a Tireless Pioneer
Arnold Molina Azurin

On Cultural Pluralism & Nationhood
Imelda Valdez

Intoducing Philippneasian
E. Arsenio Manuel

The Incorporation of the Province of Cavite Into the World Economy
John P. McAndrew

Some Thoughts on Current Filipino Peasant Worldview
Noel Mondejar

Fiestas: A Reevaluation
Alice G. Guillermo

Folk Reasoning as Art: An Aspect of Culturral Pluralism and Nationhood
Vivencio R. Jose

Download Articles Here: 

http://116.50.242.171/PSSC/index.php/agt01/issue/view/200

Source:

Private Collection