UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines
25th UGAT Annual National Conference
“UGAT@25”
22-24 October 2003, University of San Carlos, Cebu City
Dear UGAT Member,
The 25th UGAT Annual National Conference (UGAT@25) will be held on October 22-24, 2003 at the Cebu Golden Peak Hotel and Suites. I am your Conference Convenor as the Univesity of San Carlos has been honored to once again sponsor this important gathering. You can now view details of the conference on the website of the university, www.usc.edu.ph. Just scroll down the "Announcements" section and click on the UGAT@25 blurb. You will also receive by late next week at the earliest, the printed invitational brochure which we are now sending out by post.
I regret to inform you that we are still trying to develop a cgi table for the Pre-Registration section of the website. This means that you may not be able as yet to pre-register online. However, I earnestly request you to send your name, institution and contact numbers to me (also at jbersales@usc.edu.ph or soandept@usc.edu.ph) should you decide to attend the conference so that I can book your hotel room accommodations at the earliest possible time. This will unload UGAT of any financial difficulties later on. This will also help the Secretariat prepare your kit and ID ahead of time.
For now, let me just tell you of the registration-accommodation package to give you an idea of how much you need (in case you find opening the website too cumbersome). If you register on or before September 20, you only need to pay P3,000 for twin-sharing accommodations or P4,000 fo single accommodations. The registration-accommodation package includes the conference kit plus 3 nights, 4 days stay inclusive of buffet meals and snacks. After September 20, you need to add P500 for either of the two types of accommodations (i.e., P3,500 or P4,500). The website as well as the printed brochure I am sending out will spell out payment details by bank transfer. You may also reply to this email so that I can give you more information in this regard. But I do hope you will communicate with me soon. Thank you.
Sincerely,
JOJO R. BERSALES
Chair,
USC SoAn Dept.
Thursday, August 28, 2003
Saturday, October 19, 2002
Revisting Philippine Archaeology
Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC)
and
Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT)
REVISITING PHILIPPINE ARCHEOLOGY
19 October 2002-Saturday 8am - 3pm
Program Schedule
Morning Sessions
Maria Mangahas, Ph.D., U.P Diliman/Mindanao, Forum Facilitator
Welcome and Introductions
Session 1: The National Museum and Cultural Resources Management in the Philippines
Speaker: Ms. Corazon Alvina, Director, National Museum
Session 2: The Anthropology of Archeology
Speaker: Israel Cabanilla, Dept. of Anthropology, U.P. Diliman
Session 3: Dating and Other Problems in Philippine Archeology (Tabon Finds, Banaue Rice Terraces, Calatagan Pottery, Laguna bronze plate..)
Speaker: Eusebio Dizon, Ph.D., National Museum and Archeological Studies Program, U.P. Diliman
Victor Paz, Ph.D., Archeological Studies Program, U.P. Diliman
Discussant
Open Forum
Session 4: Recent Findings in Philippine Arcehology
Speaker: Wilfredo Ronquillo, Chief, Archeology Division, National Museum and Lecturer, U.P. Diliman
Roxee Lim, U.P. Diliman
Discussant
Open Forum
Wrap up of the morning session
Afternoon Sessions
Session 5: Revisiting Caves and Petroglyphs
Panel of Speakers:
The Angono Petroglyphs
Jesus Peralta, Ph.D
Geology of the Angono Petroglyphs
Sylvio Lopez, San Miguel Corporation
The Philippine Petroglyphs
Grace Barreto, Archeological Studies Program, U.P Diliman
Eufracio Abaya, Ph.D., Dept of Anthropology, U.P. Diliman
Ambeth Ocampo, Columnist, PDI
Discussants
Session 6: The Use and Abuse of Archeology in the Philippines
Arnold Molina Azurin, Asian Public Intellectual Fellow, Nippon Foundation
Open Forum
Wrap-up of the Day Session
Maria Mangahas, Ph.D., Forum Facilitator
and
Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT)
REVISITING PHILIPPINE ARCHEOLOGY
19 October 2002-Saturday 8am - 3pm
Program Schedule
Morning Sessions
Maria Mangahas, Ph.D., U.P Diliman/Mindanao, Forum Facilitator
Welcome and Introductions
Session 1: The National Museum and Cultural Resources Management in the Philippines
Speaker: Ms. Corazon Alvina, Director, National Museum
Session 2: The Anthropology of Archeology
Speaker: Israel Cabanilla, Dept. of Anthropology, U.P. Diliman
Session 3: Dating and Other Problems in Philippine Archeology (Tabon Finds, Banaue Rice Terraces, Calatagan Pottery, Laguna bronze plate..)
Speaker: Eusebio Dizon, Ph.D., National Museum and Archeological Studies Program, U.P. Diliman
Victor Paz, Ph.D., Archeological Studies Program, U.P. Diliman
Discussant
Open Forum
Session 4: Recent Findings in Philippine Arcehology
Speaker: Wilfredo Ronquillo, Chief, Archeology Division, National Museum and Lecturer, U.P. Diliman
Roxee Lim, U.P. Diliman
Discussant
Open Forum
Wrap up of the morning session
Afternoon Sessions
Session 5: Revisiting Caves and Petroglyphs
Panel of Speakers:
The Angono Petroglyphs
Jesus Peralta, Ph.D
Geology of the Angono Petroglyphs
Sylvio Lopez, San Miguel Corporation
The Philippine Petroglyphs
Grace Barreto, Archeological Studies Program, U.P Diliman
Eufracio Abaya, Ph.D., Dept of Anthropology, U.P. Diliman
Ambeth Ocampo, Columnist, PDI
Discussants
Session 6: The Use and Abuse of Archeology in the Philippines
Arnold Molina Azurin, Asian Public Intellectual Fellow, Nippon Foundation
Open Forum
Wrap-up of the Day Session
Maria Mangahas, Ph.D., Forum Facilitator
Wednesday, August 14, 2002
UGAT eGroups
hi guys,
tuni, i made you moderator na. tell me when i can give you the excel list. its still in the making. lapit na tapos pls. make changes na don't have time to tinker with it. am home wed. whole day
dont forget the ID pls.
IMPT.
Zands, Ai, tuni others
May binubuong publications committee. (see minutes of meeting. kung kailangan tuns paki upload na lang ok y2k)
gumagawa kami ng guidelines on work or roles of editors, choice or articles ganun
medyo di k type yung choices wholly ni maria she is editor of 2001 conference. kaya sana tulungan niyo ako. jun is making the guideliness but i want to suggest baka may good ones kayo to uplift the AGHAM TAO JOURNAL na medyo maganda at professional ang dating.
be ugat active members para matulungan nyo ako. hey! SUPER COOL na ang UGAT office, may aircon na malamig. i can work there. tuni pwede ka na mag-computer dun. dun ako nag-aaral at work. pwede mag-tambay.
anyway, thats all for now. i need your inputs. we are in the middle of making guidelines. tuni i forgot to include the ethnographic writing workshop as ASAP important. can we post this for members and others for comments? or what people want, the more the merrier, pwede kaya sa anthro groups? recruit them for members? hehehhe. eizel na lang siguro yun. but we need membership involvement para naman active ang egroups nating to start. konti konti.
email me pls.
melay
p.s. zands, just in case lets chat about this. i need to process this.
tuni, i made you moderator na. tell me when i can give you the excel list. its still in the making. lapit na tapos pls. make changes na don't have time to tinker with it. am home wed. whole day
dont forget the ID pls.
IMPT.
Zands, Ai, tuni others
May binubuong publications committee. (see minutes of meeting. kung kailangan tuns paki upload na lang ok y2k)
gumagawa kami ng guidelines on work or roles of editors, choice or articles ganun
medyo di k type yung choices wholly ni maria she is editor of 2001 conference. kaya sana tulungan niyo ako. jun is making the guideliness but i want to suggest baka may good ones kayo to uplift the AGHAM TAO JOURNAL na medyo maganda at professional ang dating.
be ugat active members para matulungan nyo ako. hey! SUPER COOL na ang UGAT office, may aircon na malamig. i can work there. tuni pwede ka na mag-computer dun. dun ako nag-aaral at work. pwede mag-tambay.
anyway, thats all for now. i need your inputs. we are in the middle of making guidelines. tuni i forgot to include the ethnographic writing workshop as ASAP important. can we post this for members and others for comments? or what people want, the more the merrier, pwede kaya sa anthro groups? recruit them for members? hehehhe. eizel na lang siguro yun. but we need membership involvement para naman active ang egroups nating to start. konti konti.
email me pls.
melay
p.s. zands, just in case lets chat about this. i need to process this.
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Anthropologists Apologize to Lumads
Mindanao Culture and Arts
Museum and Research
Anthropologists Apologize to Lumads
Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews
ISLAND GARDEN CITY OF SAMAL - "Patawarin n'yo kami" (Please forgive us).
A public admission of guilt and a public apology to the Lumads, delivered by no less than the president of the Ugnayang Pang-agham Tao (UGAT or Anthropological Association of the Philippines), capped the three-day 24th National Conference of anthropologists here.
"I publicly would like to apologize to the Datu," said Prof. Leonardo Estacio, UGAT president, as he called on his colleagues to do "a lot of self-reflection" on the manner by which they treat their objects of study and reminded them of their reason for being and the Code of Ethics they are supposed to observe.
Estacio was reacting to a comment by Datu Al Saliling of the Arumanen-Manobo in North Cotabato of how some researchers tend to look down on Lumads as "uneducated" when "you do not even know what is our own worldview."
"Listen to us. Find out from us," he said.
Earlier, in a speech delivered in Cebuano on the Lumads' view on the peace process in Mindanao, Datu Al said "no one and forgive me for saying this, no sector is genuinely interested in the survival of the Lumad. No one."
On Monday evening, after the launching of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism's video documentary, "Katutubo: Memory of the Dance," Beting Colmo, a Manobo from Mt. Apo, also spoke of how the ill practices of many researchers had forced them to want to be left alone.
The favorite subject of many a researcher, the indigenous peoples, whether in Mindanao or elsewhere, too often become mere objects of study, not participants, and are too often forgotten after the researcher obtains his or her masters or doctorate degree.
The researcher also too often does not return to the host community to validate the research or give them copies, in their own language, of the research findings.
Many, too, do not return documents or artifacts borrowed from communities.
"Mea culpa, kasama ako sa guilty (I am guilty, too),
Estacio said after reading in public UGAT's Code of Ethics.
The Code of Ethics, consisting of three paragraphs, is embodied in the organization's Constitution, under Article III, Section 2.
An anthropologist, the code states, "must be scientifically objective (truthful) and relevant to national and community goals; sincere to his host community and obliged to explain to them the objectives and implications of his research; to listen to criticism by his host community of the research he has conducted; and eventually to provide them a copy of his work, ideally in their language, for the host community would be the final arbiter of the validity of his research."
An anthropologist doing research, the Code adds, "has the obligation to make available the results of his research data not only to the host community and is scientific community, but also to the larger community."
The anthropologist, the Code adds, "has the right and the obligation to criticize unethical practices of fellow anthropologists and other individuals and institutions that affect the practice of anthropology."
Two other anthropologists delivered a public apology and called on their colleagues to reflect on their practices.
It was not, however, the first time anthropologists apologized to the Lumads in an UGAT conference.
An UGAT member told MindaNews that he has witnessed public apologies to indigenous peoples in several UGAT conferences, "and yet, many, unfortunately, have not learned from the mistakes."
http://www.mindanaoculture.com/research/research/2002/anthro.shtml
Museum and Research
Anthropologists Apologize to Lumads
Carolyn O. Arguillas / MindaNews
ISLAND GARDEN CITY OF SAMAL - "Patawarin n'yo kami" (Please forgive us).
A public admission of guilt and a public apology to the Lumads, delivered by no less than the president of the Ugnayang Pang-agham Tao (UGAT or Anthropological Association of the Philippines), capped the three-day 24th National Conference of anthropologists here.
"I publicly would like to apologize to the Datu," said Prof. Leonardo Estacio, UGAT president, as he called on his colleagues to do "a lot of self-reflection" on the manner by which they treat their objects of study and reminded them of their reason for being and the Code of Ethics they are supposed to observe.
Estacio was reacting to a comment by Datu Al Saliling of the Arumanen-Manobo in North Cotabato of how some researchers tend to look down on Lumads as "uneducated" when "you do not even know what is our own worldview."
"Listen to us. Find out from us," he said.
Earlier, in a speech delivered in Cebuano on the Lumads' view on the peace process in Mindanao, Datu Al said "no one and forgive me for saying this, no sector is genuinely interested in the survival of the Lumad. No one."
On Monday evening, after the launching of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism's video documentary, "Katutubo: Memory of the Dance," Beting Colmo, a Manobo from Mt. Apo, also spoke of how the ill practices of many researchers had forced them to want to be left alone.
The favorite subject of many a researcher, the indigenous peoples, whether in Mindanao or elsewhere, too often become mere objects of study, not participants, and are too often forgotten after the researcher obtains his or her masters or doctorate degree.
The researcher also too often does not return to the host community to validate the research or give them copies, in their own language, of the research findings.
Many, too, do not return documents or artifacts borrowed from communities.
"Mea culpa, kasama ako sa guilty (I am guilty, too),
Estacio said after reading in public UGAT's Code of Ethics.
The Code of Ethics, consisting of three paragraphs, is embodied in the organization's Constitution, under Article III, Section 2.
An anthropologist, the code states, "must be scientifically objective (truthful) and relevant to national and community goals; sincere to his host community and obliged to explain to them the objectives and implications of his research; to listen to criticism by his host community of the research he has conducted; and eventually to provide them a copy of his work, ideally in their language, for the host community would be the final arbiter of the validity of his research."
An anthropologist doing research, the Code adds, "has the obligation to make available the results of his research data not only to the host community and is scientific community, but also to the larger community."
The anthropologist, the Code adds, "has the right and the obligation to criticize unethical practices of fellow anthropologists and other individuals and institutions that affect the practice of anthropology."
Two other anthropologists delivered a public apology and called on their colleagues to reflect on their practices.
It was not, however, the first time anthropologists apologized to the Lumads in an UGAT conference.
An UGAT member told MindaNews that he has witnessed public apologies to indigenous peoples in several UGAT conferences, "and yet, many, unfortunately, have not learned from the mistakes."
http://www.mindanaoculture.com/research/research/2002/anthro.shtml
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
Want to appreciate Mindanao better?
Want to appreciate Mindanao better?
Codes: K3 C6
Author:
Source: Mindanao Times
Date Published: 04/08/02
Starting Page: internet edition
WANT to have a better appreciation of Mindanao in just three days? Attend the 24th National Conference of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT) or Anthropological Association of the Philippines at the Paradise Island Beach Resort from Monday to Wednesday and listen to scholars speak about the distribution of archaeological sites in Mindanao from the Paleolithic age to the present by island and provinces; the origin of Monkayo; the Higaonon decline in Northern Mindanao; the implications of the Butuan archaeological find on Asian linkages; how a T'boli epic singer and a Manila-based diva relate with Lake Sebu; a Manobo feminist practice in the oral epic Agyu; the subjectivity in the Agusan Manobo's ted-em (song).
Learn about the Tudbulul, the song of the old T'boli man; the indigenous concepts of power and the artisan's muse among the Tagabawa Bagobo in Sibulan, Davao del Sur; the bio-diversity conservation program in Lopez Jaena, Misamis Occidental; the shifting anchorage and violence in the lives of the Badjao; the survival of Sama-Dilaut in an urban setting; the Iranun historiograpical contours of the Subpangan principality and the Pulangui River-Illana Bay Corridor from 1515 to 1765.
Under the conference theme, "Rootwork and Network: Weaving Mindanao Anthology," four panels have been created to tackle archaeology, history,ecology; indigenous art, music and rituals; Asia-Pacific perspectives on Mindanao; and cultures of peace, violence and development.
Ever wondered how Indonesians view Mindanao and the Mindanawons? Find out from Herry Yogasawara of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Floor Quibuyen of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas will tackle wayfinding, a "disappeared" knowledge in Philippine pre-history and anthropology; Gus Miclat, executive director of the Initiatives for International Dialogue will talk on solidarity and the Mindanao struggle; while Aurora Roxas-Lim of the University of the Philippines' Asian Centerwill deliver an overview of the East Asean Growth Area. Panel 4 on the Cultures of Peace, Violence and Development will have Cynthia Neri Zayas of UP Diliman speak on "Shifting Anchorage and Violence in the lives of the Badjao;" Anthony R. Balisi also of UP Diliman will talk on "Panandayuhan at Pang-aangkop: Ang Usapi ng mga Badjao ng Mindanao;" Nimfa Bracamonte of the Mindanao State University in Iligan will tackle survival in an urban setting among the Sama Dilaut; Vel J. Suminguit, Ma. Easterluna S. Canoy and Merlyne M. Paunlagui will present a paper on creating space for local forest management; Prof. Rudy Rodil of MSU Iligan will speak
Source: http://www.afrim.org.ph/Archives/2002/MindanaoTimes/April/09/Want%20to%20appreciate%20Mindanao%20better.txt
Codes: K3 C6
Author:
Source: Mindanao Times
Date Published: 04/08/02
Starting Page: internet edition
WANT to have a better appreciation of Mindanao in just three days? Attend the 24th National Conference of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT) or Anthropological Association of the Philippines at the Paradise Island Beach Resort from Monday to Wednesday and listen to scholars speak about the distribution of archaeological sites in Mindanao from the Paleolithic age to the present by island and provinces; the origin of Monkayo; the Higaonon decline in Northern Mindanao; the implications of the Butuan archaeological find on Asian linkages; how a T'boli epic singer and a Manila-based diva relate with Lake Sebu; a Manobo feminist practice in the oral epic Agyu; the subjectivity in the Agusan Manobo's ted-em (song).
Learn about the Tudbulul, the song of the old T'boli man; the indigenous concepts of power and the artisan's muse among the Tagabawa Bagobo in Sibulan, Davao del Sur; the bio-diversity conservation program in Lopez Jaena, Misamis Occidental; the shifting anchorage and violence in the lives of the Badjao; the survival of Sama-Dilaut in an urban setting; the Iranun historiograpical contours of the Subpangan principality and the Pulangui River-Illana Bay Corridor from 1515 to 1765.
Under the conference theme, "Rootwork and Network: Weaving Mindanao Anthology," four panels have been created to tackle archaeology, history,ecology; indigenous art, music and rituals; Asia-Pacific perspectives on Mindanao; and cultures of peace, violence and development.
Ever wondered how Indonesians view Mindanao and the Mindanawons? Find out from Herry Yogasawara of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Floor Quibuyen of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas will tackle wayfinding, a "disappeared" knowledge in Philippine pre-history and anthropology; Gus Miclat, executive director of the Initiatives for International Dialogue will talk on solidarity and the Mindanao struggle; while Aurora Roxas-Lim of the University of the Philippines' Asian Centerwill deliver an overview of the East Asean Growth Area. Panel 4 on the Cultures of Peace, Violence and Development will have Cynthia Neri Zayas of UP Diliman speak on "Shifting Anchorage and Violence in the lives of the Badjao;" Anthony R. Balisi also of UP Diliman will talk on "Panandayuhan at Pang-aangkop: Ang Usapi ng mga Badjao ng Mindanao;" Nimfa Bracamonte of the Mindanao State University in Iligan will tackle survival in an urban setting among the Sama Dilaut; Vel J. Suminguit, Ma. Easterluna S. Canoy and Merlyne M. Paunlagui will present a paper on creating space for local forest management; Prof. Rudy Rodil of MSU Iligan will speak
Source: http://www.afrim.org.ph/Archives/2002/MindanaoTimes/April/09/Want%20to%20appreciate%20Mindanao%20better.txt
Friday, March 15, 2002
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:
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.
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:
- Mindanao Archaeology, History, and Ecology
- Indigenous Art, Music and Ritual
- Cultures of Peace, Violence and Development
- Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Mindanao
Other features of the conference includes:
- Special recognition to eminent Mindanao scholars: Schlegel, Maceda, Solheim, Bernad, Schreurs, Madale and Nimmo
- Visit to Samal caves, and dinner with City officials
- Dialogue with grassroots anthropologists and advocates
- Launching of MA and PhD in Anthropology with special reference to Mindanao
- Showing of documentary film on indigenous peoples, produced by PCIJ
- Poster presentation (not limited to Mindanao issues), book sale, and book launching
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
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
Tuesday, January 1, 2002
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
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
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
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
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
Saturday, October 13, 2001
Aghamtao 10
Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 10 / 2001
Source:
Private Collection
Volume 10 / 2001
Source:
Private Collection
Friday, September 21, 2001
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)
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
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
Friday, October 31, 1997
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
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
Thursday, October 24, 1996
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
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Volume 8 / 1996
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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
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Wednesday, October 23, 1996
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
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
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