In Memoriam

Remembering the Filipino and Filipinist anthropologists who went on before us.

This list begins in 1960 and was most recently updated on 10 November 2018. If you would like to contribute a notice for any individuals on the list or if you wish to inform us of a death, please leave a message in the comment section.

Name	Born	Died	Institutional Affiliation
Rene  Agbayani		02-Feb-98	Anthro Watch
Edilberto  Alegre			UP Department of English and Comparative Literature
Celia  Antonio		25-Jul-11	UP Department of Anthropology
Wilfredo  Arce	29-Mar-37	28-Mar-14	Ateneo de Manila University
Artemio  Barbosa		14-Dec-15	National Museum
Ma. Lorena  Barros	18-Mar-48	24-Mar-76	UP Department of Anthropology
Moises  Bello			UP Department of Anthropology
H. Otley Beyer	13-Jul-1883	31-Dec-66	UP Department of Anthropology National Museum
Carol  Brady-deRaedt		23-Oct-12	UP Baguio
Rowe V. Cadelina			Silliman University
Rendel Ryan "Perper"  Cagula	26-Feb-91	04-Nov-14	UP Mindanao
Fr. Gabriel  Casal, OSB	1939	14-Jun-06	National Museum
Katherine  Cheng		2015	UP Department of Anthropology Anthropology Society
Fr. Francisco  F. Claver, SJ	20-Jan-26	01-Jul-10	Roman Catholic Diocese of Malaybalay
Harold C. Conklin	27-Apr-26	18-Feb-16	Yale University
Sr. Felicidad M. Dacayanan, MIC			UP Department of Anthropology Maryhill School of Theology
Jules  De Raedt			UP Baguio
Amalia  dela Torre	08-Apr	08-Mar-14	National Museum  / University of San Carlos
Fr. Francisco  Demetrio, SJ	1920	1996	Xavier University; Museo de Oro
Edward Pasqual Dozier	23-Apr-16	02-May-71	University of New Mexico
Frederick "Fred" Russell  Eggan	12-Sep-06	07-May-91	University of Chicago
Damiana L. Eugenio	27-Sep-21	10-Oct-14	UP Department of English and Comparative Literature
Alfredo E. Evangelista	22-Sep-26	18-Oct-08	National Museum
Doreen Gamboa Fernandez	28-Oct-34	24-Jun-02	Ateneo de Manila University
Robert Bradford Fox	11-May-18	25-May-85	National Museum
Juan R. Francisco	1929		UP Department of Anthropology Asian Center
Natividad  Garcia
Darleen   Gela	19-Sep	13-Sep-18	UP Department of Anthropology
Florentino  Hornedo	16-Oct-38	09-Dec-15	Ateneo de Manila University
F. Landa Jocano	05-Feb-30	27-Oct-13	UP Department of Anthropology National Museum
Marie Margaret Martin Keesing	01-Dec-01	13-Jul-61	Stanford University
Felix Maxwell Keesing	05-Jan-02	22-Apr-61	Stanford University
Leticia  Lagmay		2011	UP Department of Anthropology
William  Longacre	17-Dec-37	18-Nov-15	University of Arizona
Fr. Frank Xavier Lynch, SJ	02-Apr-21	28-Sep-78	Ateneo de Manila University
Marcelino  Maceda			University of San Carlos
Jose  Maceda	17-Jan-17	05-May-04	UP College of Music
E. Arsenio Manuel	1909	2003	UP Department of Anthropology
Erlinda D. Montillo-Burton	30-Nov-39	11-Sep-18	Xavier University
Kim  Nepomuceno	08-Jun-77	01-Mar-14	UP Department of Anthropology Anthropology Society
Natividad  Noriega		1994	UP Anthropology Museum
Amparo  B. Ojeda	1930	23-Jun-10	Loyola University of Chicago
Harold  Olofson	28-Jan-41	21-Oct-09	University of San Carlos
Timoteo S. Oracion	1911	1990	Silliman University
Sabino "Abe" Garcia Padilla Jr.	02-May-54	22-Mar-13	College of Arts and Sciences, UP Manila
Mariflor  Parpan-Malicsi	17-Oct-36	08-Apr-16	UP Department of Anthropology
Antoon  Postma	28-Mar-29	22-Oct-16	Mangyan Heritage Center
Fr. Rudolph  Rahman, SVD	20-Sep-02	23-Sep-85	University of San Carlos
Delbert  Rice	24-Jan-28	08-May-14	Ikalahan Foundation
Gerard  Rixhon	20-Aug-25	01-Sep-12	Ateneo de Manila University
Michelle "Shelly" Zimbalist Rosaldo	1944	11-Oct-81	Stanford University
Mamitua  Saber	1922	31-Jan-92	Mindanao State University
Stuart  A. Schlegel	25-Oct-32	09-Nov-18	University of California, Santa Cruz
Chin Ben  See		1986	Pagkakaisa / Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran
Wilhelm  Solheim II	19-Nov-24	25-Jul-14	University of Hawaii  UP Archaeological Studies Program
Marcelo  Tangco			National Museum
Lillian  Trager	15-Apr-47	10-Nov-06	University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Mumtaz Mahal  Veloso		04-Sep-94	UP Department of Anthropology
Ronald Hector "Hecky" A. Villanueva	05-Oct-67	07-Nov-10	Gawad Kalinga
Mario D. Zamora	1948	12-Aug-93	UP Department of Anthropology

Erlinda D. Montillo-Burton, Xavier University

ERLINDA D. MONTILLO-BURTON
Xavier University

30 November 1939 - 11 September 2018

Dr. Burton was the director of Museo de Oro, Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro.  Dr. Burton obtained her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.  She had her MA in archaeology from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She taught anthropology (archaeology and biological anthropology) at Imperial Valley, Imperial, California for five years from 1969 to 1974.  She was also instrumental in putting up the Imperial Valley College Museum. After finishing her PhD, she went back to Cagayan de Oro and taught at Xavier University from 1983 to 2018 -- training students in museum work and field research.  She also served as the Research Director for Research Institute for Mindanao Culture at the Xavier University for nine years from 1996 to 2005.

At the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro. 

Maraming salamat po sa lahat ng ambag ninyo sa pagpapalago ng Anthropolohiya sa Pilipinas.

UGAT 40th Annual Conference - Second Call for Abstracts and Panel Proposals

SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PANEL PROPOSALS

UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines
and
Palawan State University (PSU)

40th Annual Conference
An International Gathering
OUR INTERCONNECTEDNESS:
DOING ANTHROPOLOGY IN A TIME OF ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
8-10 November 2018
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

We invite participants to the 40th UGAT Annual Conference to reconsider the meaning of the adage, “All things are connected.” Once evocative of spiritual environmentalism, it now also calls up the messy entanglements of species, ecosystems, households, communities, economies, technologies, politics, and nation-states. Now more than ever and on unprecedented scales, organisms and persons, communities and environments are connected in complex ways, producing impacts and repercussions that may be beneficial to some, yet detrimental to others. These connections are not always visible or self-evident. Interconnectedness is recognized time and again in traditional ecological knowledge and now it is increasingly being acknowledged and probed across academic fields.

In this international conference, we aim to follow the multiple strands of our interconnectedness with the environment, and in so doing confront the ecological crises that threaten entire species and ways of life, as well as to pay attention to, and learn from human adaptability. What can we learn from local solutions or responses to climate change, extreme weather events, water and food insecurity, and the steady depletion and degradation of finite, life-supporting resources in the names of sustainable development and economic growth? Given that governments, transnational institutions, corporations, and civil society are part of these entanglements, we ask participants to consider and make explicit the practical and policy implications of their work.

In addition, we invite participants to reflect on the disciplinal and theoretical boundaries between anthropocentrism and biocentrism, and to consider the possibilities of shifting or removing these boundaries in this epoch we now know as the Anthropocene. We might examine, for example, how we have built bodies of knowledge on human-environment relationships, moving through ecological anthropology and political ecology, towards planetary anthropology, interspecies ethnography, and the investigation of the “more than human” or “other than human” aspects of anthropological work. Participants are encouraged to reassess theories, methodologies, and ethics, to revisit past studies, and to explore transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral collaborations in the light of the ecological crises we face.

We invite scholars and teachers from other disciplines, practitioners, advocates, policy-makers, development workers, and indigenous scholars, youth, and elders from around the world to be part of this reckoning in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, an island once known as the last Philippine frontier, now a site of swift environmental transformation.

We welcome abstracts for ethnographic papers or proposals for panels with a theoretical lens, community-led case studies, as well as transdisciplinary panels exploring novel methodologies and research questions on the following sub-topics:

• Cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity: the looming extinction of species, languages, and lifeways; the interconnections between health, health practices, and ecology; gendered interactions with the environment.
• Climate change: Resilience, adaptation and mitigation; disasters and disaster-response; food security; water security.
• Economies and ecologies: extractive industries and the questions of viability and alternatives; global neoliberal capitalism and its impact in local environments; class inequality and ecology; ecotourism; traditional and contemporary livelihoods.
• Interspecies ethnography: interactions and connections between humans and other species; the rights of animals, land, and bodies of water.
• Protected areas: nature conservation, sacred places, modified landscapes and seascapes; wetlands, marine ecosystems, riverine communities, forests, Indigenous Communities’ Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs).
• Ecological knowledge: traditional, local, and indigenous; environmental education; intersections between traditional ecological knowledge and science.
• Ethics and methodology for research in communities dealing with, or contributing to ecological crises.
• Revisiting early environmental ethnographies: How have things changed since? What predictions have come to fruition?

• Proposals for special panels on research conducted in Palawan (whether or not they fall under the theme or sub-topics) are welcome.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Organized panels: Proposals for organized panels may be comprised of three to four individual papers. The following must be submitted as a proposal: 1) an over-arching abstract (maximum 250 words) on the topic or argument of the panel; 2) abstracts for the individual papers that comprise the panel (please see submission guidelines for individual papers); 3) contact details of the corresponding proponent with whom UGAT may communicate directly.

Individual papers: Abstracts for individual papers (maximum 250 words) must be written in a manner that is accessible to non-academic audiences. The proponents’ resume and contact details must be appended (institutional affiliation, email address, telephone numbers, mailing address).

Students intending to join the Student Paper competition must indicate this in the submission. Please specify the degree program, year level, and university.

Kindly email your proposals as an attachment (in MS Word format) to ugat.conference@gmail.com.

SUBMISSION TIMELINE 

The deadline for individual abstracts and panel proposals is 27 July 2018. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 15 August 2018 and will be asked to submit full papers on or before 31 August 2018.

CONTACT UGAT

For further information, please contact the conference secretariat at ugat.conference@gmail.com.

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Download PDF here: UGAT 40th Annual Conference CFA

UGAT Statement on Terror-tagging of IP Leaders by the Philippine Government

The Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) circulated a statement on 24 April 2018 regarding the terror-tagging of UN Special Rapporteur Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

UGAT Statement on Terror-tagging of IP Leaders by the Philippine Government

We, members of the anthropological community in the Philippines, are extremely concerned about the Department of Justice (DoJ) court petition that accuses Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and some thirty highly respected indigenous peoples leaders, as “terrorists” and of committing serious criminal offenses under the Human Security Act of 2007.

The DoJ petition, which is currently lodged at Branch 19 of the Regional Trial Court in the National Capital Region, tags 600 individuals as ‘terrorists’.  It relies on provisions of Republic Act 9372 or the Human Security Act of 2007, which allows warrantless arrest of persons declared as ‘terrorists’ by the courts.

We are moreover concerned that those so accused risk becoming targets for extrajudicial actions.  Like Ms. Tauli-Corpuz, the other indigenous leaders are actively involved in the assertion of IP rights and in defending their ancestral domains at the grassroots, the national level, and international arenas of engagements. These engagements have exposed them, their families, and villages to danger precisely because of the sensitivity of the rights to land and ancestral domains that they are defending.  Members of a broad formation of indigenous peoples and indigenous rights advocates in the country (Loyukan) have also raised alarm that regardless of assurance of due process provided by the courts, the mere listing of Tauli-Corpuz and other indigenous leaders in the petition has rendered them target of possible attacks by the military and by other interest groups given the long history of violence directed against them.

We testify to Ms. Tauli-Corpuz’ considerable contribution to the advancement of indigenous peoples’ rights on behalf of and with support from communities as well as indigenous peoples’ rights advocates in the Philippines and the world. Ms. Tauli-Corpuz has an unassailable track record. Herself of Kankana-ey descent, Ms. Tauli-Corpuz previously served as chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues from 2005 to 2009 and has published extensively about the rights and interests of indigenous peoples, women, men, and children.

Far from advocating violence and sowing terror, we say that Ms. Tauli-Corpuz, in consonance with her mandate as a UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, has rightly raised the issue of government public policy pronouncements to violently deal with indigenous communities suspected of involvement with the communist-led insurgency, including bombing schools.

In solidarity with victims of human rights violations, we, anthropologists of the Philippines bear witness to the suffering of indigenous peoples and their leaders as we work and conduct research among and with indigenous communities. We attest that the “terrorist” label and communist-membership allegations against Ms. Tauli-Corpuz and her fellow indigenous leaders would only expose them and their peoples to undue harm.

We call on the DoJ and the broader policy-making body of the current administration to exercise prudence in making pronouncements, enforce strict adherence to due process, and carefully vet evidence when it pursues legal actions. A violation of these principles puts in great risk individuals, groups, and communities that had done nothing close to acts of terrorism but rather seek to build a humane national community and a global future that thrives on social justice, solidarity, and peace.

We call on the international anthropological community, especially those working among indigenous peoples and local communities, to strongly condemn these irresponsible and malicious acts.


20 April 2018

Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc.
Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Philippine Social Sciences Center, Commonwealth Avenue
Diliman, Quezon City, 1101 Philippines

Link to pdf: UGAT Statement of VTC Terror-Tagging 20180420

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UGAT 40th Annual Conference Call for Abstracts and Panel Proposals

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PANEL PROPOSALS

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

40th Annual Conference
An International Gathering
OUR INTERCONNECTEDNESS:
DOING ANTHROPOLOGY IN A TIME OF ECOLOGICAL CRISIS 
8-10 November 2018
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan

We invite participants to the 40th UGAT Annual Conference to reconsider the meaning of the adage, “All things are connected.” Once evocative of spiritual environmentalism, it now also calls up the messy entanglements of species, ecosystems, households, communities, economies, technologies, politics, and nation-states. Now more than ever and on unprecedented scales, organisms and persons, communities and environments are connected in complex ways, producing impacts and repercussions that may be beneficial to some, yet detrimental to others. These connections are not always visible or self-evident. Interconnectedness is recognized time and again in traditional ecological knowledge and now it is increasingly being acknowledged and probed across academic fields.

In this international conference, we aim to follow the multiple strands of our interconnectedness with the environment, and in so doing confront the ecological crises that threaten entire species and ways of life, as well as to pay attention to, and learn from human adaptability. What can we learn from local solutions or responses to climate change, extreme weather events, water and food insecurity, and the steady depletion and degradation of finite, life-supporting resources in the names of sustainable development and economic growth? Given that governments, transnational institutions, corporations, and civil society are part of these entanglements, we ask participants to consider and make explicit the practical and policy implications of their work.

In addition, we invite participants to reflect on the disciplinal and theoretical boundaries between anthropocentrism and biocentrism, and to consider the possibilities of shifting or removing these boundaries in this epoch we now know as the Anthropocene. We might examine, for example, how we have built bodies of knowledge on human-environment relationships, moving through ecological anthropology and political ecology, towards planetary anthropology, interspecies ethnography, and the investigation of the “more than human” or “other than human” aspects of anthropological work. Participants are encouraged to reassess theories, methodologies, and ethics, to revisit past studies, and to explore transdisciplinary, multi-sectoral collaborations in the light of the ecological crises we face.

We invite scholars and teachers from other disciplines, practitioners, advocates, policy-makers, development workers, and indigenous scholars, youth, and elders from around the world to be part of this reckoning in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, an island once known as the last Philippine frontier, now a site of swift environmental transformation.

We welcome abstracts for ethnographic papers or proposals for panels with a theoretical lens, community-led case studies, as well as transdisciplinary panels exploring novel methodologies and research questions on the following sub-topics:

• Cultural, linguistic, and biological diversity: the looming extinction of species, languages, and lifeways; the interconnections between health, health practices, and ecology; gendered interactions with the environment.
• Climate change: Resilience, adaptation and mitigation; disasters and disaster-response; food security; water security.
• Economies and ecologies: extractive industries and the questions of viability and alternatives; global neoliberal capitalism and its impact in local environments; class inequality and ecology; ecotourism; traditional and contemporary livelihoods.
• Interspecies ethnography: interactions and connections between humans and other species; the rights of animals, land, and bodies of water.
• Protected areas: nature conservation, sacred places, modified landscapes and seascapes; wetlands, marine ecosystems, riverine communities, forests, Indigenous Communities’ Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs).
• Ecological knowledge: traditional, local, and indigenous; environmental education; intersections between traditional ecological knowledge and science.
• Ethics and methodology for research in communities dealing with, or contributing to ecological crises.
• Revisiting early environmental ethnographies: How have things changed since? What predictions have come to fruition?

• Proposals for special panels on research conducted in Palawan (whether or not they fall under the theme or sub-topics) are welcome.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Organized panels: Proposals for organized panels may be comprised of three to four individual papers. The following must be submitted as a proposal: 1) an over-arching abstract (maximum 250 words) on the topic or argument of the panel; 2) abstracts for the individual papers that comprise the panel (please see submission guidelines for individual papers); 3) contact details of the corresponding proponent with whom UGAT may communicate directly.

Individual papers: Abstracts for individual papers (maximum 250 words) must be written in a manner that is accessible to non-academic audiences. The proponents’ resume and contact details must be appended (institutional affiliation, email address, telephone numbers, mailing address).

Students intending to join the Student Paper competition must indicate this in the submission. Please specify the degree program, year level, and university.

Kindly email your proposals as an attachment (in MS Word format) to ugat.conference@gmail.com.

SUBMISSION TIMELINE 

The deadline for individual abstracts and panel proposals is 25 May 2018. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 15 August 2018 and will be asked to submit full papers on or before 31 August 2018.

CONTACT UGAT

For further information, please contact the conference secretariat at ugat.conference@gmail.com.

Monitor UGAT on FB for updates: www.facebook.com/groups/ugat1978/

Download PDF here: UGAT 40th Annual Conference CFA

Aghamtao 27 - Call for Submissions

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 27

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

We are now accepting article submissions for Vol. 27 of AGHAMTAO, the official and peer-reviewed journal of the Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao (UGAT), Inc. This issue will carry the theme, "The Struggle for Rights:  Anthropological Reflections on What Is and What Ought to Be." The editors are especially interested in full versions of the papers or presentations read during the 39th UGAT Annual Conference; articles or essays that engage with such papers or presentations; or which otherwise address the state, complexity and dynamics of the contemporary human rights situation in the Philippines.  Submissions that do not meet these criteria, but have clear substantive, theoretical or methodological merit, shall be given due consideration for inclusion in the issue.

Please email submissions to aghamtaojournal@gmail.com as soon as possible in order to be considered for the issue, which is scheduled for launch during the 40th UGAT Annual National Conference in 2018. To allow for the review process, the closing date for submissions for this particular issue is 30 April 2018. Submissions received beyond this date however may be considered for succeeding issues of the journal.

Article submissions must be emailed in MS Word .doc format, accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words.  All figures (numbered and with captions) must be in a separate file. The minimum length for an article submission is 3,000 words. For referencing style, kindly consult recent issues of AghamTao.


Very truly yours,


Augusto B. Gatmaytan, Issue Editor
and the Editorial Board of AGHAMTAO Vol. 27

UGAT 39th Annual Conference - Book of Abstracts

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

39th Annual Conference
THE STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS: 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON WHAT IS AND WHAT OUGHT TO BE 
9-11 November 2017
Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 

UGAT 39th Annual Conference BOA - download here.

UGAT 39th Annual Conference - In Photos

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

39th Annual Conference
THE STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS: 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON WHAT IS AND WHAT OUGHT TO BE 
9-11 November 2017
Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City

IN PHOTOS

All photos by Anthony John R. Balisi

Aghamtao 25 (Special Issue)

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 25, No 2 / 2017 (Special Issue)

Articles: 

Editors’ Notes

“Amoy isda”: The Middle Class Life of Fishmongers
Nelson Turgo

The Dynamics of the Fish Trade in Cebu City
Romeo J. Toring, Jr.

“Barter”: The Persistence of an Illicit Trade in Commercial Fishing Industry
Cherry Jhane Mondilla

Revisiting tensions and successes of marine protected areas in a Visayan municipality
Enrique G. Oracion

Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) watching and tourism in Tan-awan, Oslob, Cebu: Ecological Insights from Local Knowledge
Andrew John Fernandez

Dagat ug Kinabuhi: A survey of Bais fisherfolk and their survival strategies
Gerardo C. Maxino and Juliet J. Torete

‘Outsmarting the tuna’: Pamarilis, Technological Innovation and Local Knowledge in the Davao Gulf
Glenn Francis C. Lanticse

Obituaries: Wilfredo Arce, Harold Conklin, F. Landa Jocano, William Longacre, Mariflor Parpan, and Gerard Rixhon

Source: 

Journal cover courtesy of Maria Mangahas

Travel Advisory: UGAT Conference, Cagayan de Oro (CDO)

Travel Advisory from our Conference Host

Cagayan de Oro's Airport is in Laguindingan (between CDO and Iligan City), and 45 minutes away from Cagayan de Oro City.

From Laguindingan, participants could take a taxi at P500.00 to Cagayan de Oro or take the shuttle vans (priced at 150-199.00). Most of these vans are "door-to-door" and could take some time before the participant reach Cagayan de Oro. I suggest they take either Lax Shuttle or Magnum Express and then get off at Centrio/Ayala Mall.

Centrio/Ayala Mall is about 100 meters away from Capitol University. Seda Hotel is in Centrio. Budgetel is right in front of Capitol University along Corrales Extension. For guests staying at Mallberry Hotel they could take the Magnum Express because the terminal of Magnum is at Limketkai Mall, very near Mallberry.

Please advise participants to take their current and valid ID cards (passport for foreigners) with clear photos. There could be 1-2 checkpoints along the way. Policemen at these checkpoints are generally nice and respectful, so there is no need to worry.