Sapin-saping Alaala ng mga taga-UGAT at UP Anthro Alumni

Sapin-saping Alaala ng mga taga-UGAT at UP Anthro Alumni


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Inaayayahan namin kayong bisitahin ang UGAT-UP Anthro Alumni Blog. Hinihikayat namin kayong ibahagi ang inyong nalalaman/karanasan sa UGAT at UP Anthro Department.

Kung may nais kayong ibahagi na larawan at kung ano-ano pa at wag po kayong mag-atubili. Ito po ang link sa blog na ito:

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Anthro Conference Focuses on IP Governance

Anthro conference focuses on IP governance

Nung Aljani/MindaNews
Saturday, 27 October 2007 08:17

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/26 October) – Governance among Indigenous Peoples (IP) is the main theme of the three-day annual conference of the national anthropological association Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University here.

In his message at the opening rites Thursday, UGAT President Jose Eleazar Bersales said the conference also aims to help the seemingly “damaged Philippine culture,” which he added many observers still write as subjects in weblogs and the public opinion pages of newspapers.

“This is the opportunity for anthropologists as well as our colleagues in the social sciences who are also presenting papers in this conference, to come together to share what new knowledge has been generated to help provide critical understandings of how Filipinos deal with or exercise power and authority – of the task thereof – whether as one nation or as individuals, groups or communities,” he added.

ADZU President Fr. Antonio F. Moreno, the conference host, added the theme is just “timely to strengthen dialogues between the state and ethnic groups and communities (in the country).”

The conference is also important to educators and learners because “they share in the spirit of transformative learning. The value of socio-cultural anthropology is that it concerns itself with all the dimensions of humanity,” he said.

Participants in the annual conference include UGAT members, researchers, anthropologists, academicians, IP leaders, representatives from civil society groups and local government employees.

Among the papers presented are the studies conducted by top researchers in the country particularly on aspects of state power and its impact on particular groups, down to the enduring practices and authority systems among indigenous communities.

The three-day conference is divided into eight sessions, focusing on issues like IP governance, conflict resolution and peace-building, customary justice system, asserting citizenship and entitlements, urban governance, eco-governance and heritage, ethnography of state violence

Topics include “Shedding Blood, Preventing Bloodshed: Conflict Resolution among the Lumad” by Xavier University’s Jay Ray G. Alovera; “Customary Justice System among the Iraya Mangyans of Mindoro” by University of the Philippines’ (UP) Aleli B. Bawagan; “Tiyawan: The Teduray Justice System” by Institute of Bangsamoro Studies’ Abhoud Syed Lingga and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s Fatima Kanakan and “Maranao Customary Justice System” by Abdul Hamidullah Atar of Reconciliatory Initiatives Development Opportunities (RIDO) Inc.

Other topics are “Interest and Voices: Indigenous Governance in the 21st Century Philippines” by Dina Marie B. Delias of National University of Singapore’s Asian Research Institute; “Mainstreaming of Bodong Matagoan” by Mary Constancy Barrameda of the Diocese of Marbel; “An Anthropological Inquiry into the Governance of Conflict” by Aileen Toohey of the University of Peace; “The Syncretic Policy: Transformation in Political Action Repertoire among MNLF Returnees in Palawan” by University of Sto. Tomas’ Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria; “Bangsamoro Self-Determination” Abhoud Syed Lingga; “Seeking Sanctuary” by Kathryn A. Poethig of California State University; “Tolerance of Torture in Military Training Camps” by Marites C. Caballero of UP; “Visualizing State Violence in the Philippines” by Rosa Castillo and Riza Jopson of UP; “Pagsilip sa Isang Buhay Lider Estudyante” by UP’s Roxanne Gale R. Villaflor.

The conference will also feature “Ifugao Mountain Terraces: Monument of the Ifugao Political System in Antiquity?” by Ateneo de Manila University’s Michael Armand P. Canilao; “The Bugang River Tour: A Community-Based Ecotourism Project in Local Governance” by ADMU’s Nagai Hiroko; “Stakeholders’ Perception on the Impact of Donsol’s Butanding (Whale Shark) Ecotourism Project: Policy Implications for Sustainability and Human Security” by Herbert B. Rosana of Bicol University; “The La Mesa Dam(ned):Strategies in Water Resource Management” by UP’s Annabelle B. Bonje and Joy Raquel R. Tadeo; “The Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility in Low-Income Community: The Case of Tubig Para sa Baranggay Program of the Manila Water Company, Inc. in Sitio Kaingin II, Baranggay Pansol” by Marian Rica O. Lodripas of UP; “Community Coastal Resource Management: A Case Study of Mariveles Bataan” by Andrew Lou L. Mungcal; “Establishing the Legal Framework and Need for Social Justine in the Implementation of Energy and Development Projects in the Philippines for Sustainable Development” by Jay L. Batongbacal of Dalhousie Law School; “The Turtles Island Heritage Protected Area: The Paradox of Conservation” Rolando C. Esteban of UP; “The ATOB (stone tidal weirs) of the Ryukyus, Pescadores , and Visayas Self-governance from relics of maritime megalithic civilization” by Cynthia N. Zayas of UP; “The Role of Academe in People Empowerment: The Case of Cienda-San Vicente Farming Association (CSVFA), Baybay, Leyte” by Visayas State University’s Merlito Jose M. Bande, Pia Fluer Khristine M. Noriel and Jimmy Pogosa; “School Dropout: Power and Accountability in Basic Education” Julian E. Abuso of UP; “ICT and the Anthropology of Communication” by ADMU’s Raul Pertierra; and “Ethnicity as Performance: IPRA and its Implications for Formations of Ethnic Identities at the Rio Tuba Nickel Project, Bataraza, Palawan” by Christine Joyce Ajoc and Audrey Dawn Tomada of UP.

Besides the plenary sessions, there are also poster presentations on the same theme simultaneously running at the sidelines of the conference.

UGAT is an anthropological group established to promote closer working relationship among its members to help in the solution of socio, cultural and governance-related problems in the country.

This year’s annual conference is its 29th since 1978. (Nung Aljani/Mindanews)

http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3146&Itemid=50

2007 UGAT Secretariat

29th UGAT Annual Conference (2007, Zamboanga City) The Practice of Governance

Critiquing Governance

Critiquing Governance
Cebu Daily News / Opinion
Past Forward


By Joeber Bersales
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 12:06pm (Mla time) 10/25/2007


Tolerance of Torture in Military Camps,” “Shedding Blood, Preventing Bloodshed: Conflict Resolution Among the Lumad,” “Visualizing State Violence in the Philippines,” “Bangsamoro Self-determination,” “The Practice of Corporate Social Responsibility in Low-Income Communities,” “The Turtle Islands Heritage Protected Area: The Paradox of Conservation.”

These are just some of the 26 papers that will be presented today and tomorrow in a national meeting of Philippine anthropologists at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University with the theme, “The Practice of Governance.” The event is co-hosted by AdZU, together with Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. or UGAT, the professional association of anthropologists in the Philippines. This is Ugat’s 29th annual national conference and the ninth time to be held in Mindanao.

One of the highlights of this two-day conference is the launching this afternoon of the book “Rido: Clan Feuding and Conflict Management in Mindanao”, a collection of studies on the phenomenon written by anthropologists and other social scientists and funded by the Asia Foundation.

The conference comes amidst a week marked by a lessening of tensions following indications that the Glorietta blast was an unfortunate and avoidable accident. Zamboanga as a conference site was almost called off at the height of tensions in Basilan and Sulu in July because some thought that the violence there might spill over in the form of bombs planted in malls and public places here in what is dubbed as the “Latin City of the Philippines.” Like General Santos and Cotabato, this city has been caught in the crossfire in years past due to the intermittent skirmishes that have marked much of Muslim Mindanao since time immemorial.

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This gathering of anthropologists also comes 20 years since the Atlantic Monthly published James Fallows’ scathing essay on the failure of governance in the Philippines, which he traced to what he phrased as a “damaged culture.” Many social scientists and political pundits, stung by the rebuke from a journalist who spent merely two months in a country barely a year out of two decades of dark authoritarian rule, quickly protested what they saw as a wanton trampling of recently-regained Philippine pride. In between those years we have gone through three presidencies and are going through a fourth one, which ought to help prove or disprove this “culture-as-culprit” thesis.

UGAT has rightfully chosen to tackle the practice of governance as the conference theme this year not so much in celebration of the damaging Fallows diatribe, of course, but to come together to share what new knowledge has been generated to help provide critical understanding of how Filipinos deal with or exercise power and authority – or the lack thereof – whether as one “nation” or as individuals, groups or communities.

* * *

In my message for the souvenir program as national president of UGAT, I urged my colleagues and the general public to attend the meeting since this is a vital opportunity to see how anthropologists and other social scientists tackle governance at various arenas of practice: from governance writ large as the apparatus of the State vis-à-vis particular geographic regions or of particular aspects of State power and its impacts on particular groups, down to enduring practices and authority systems among indigenous communities.

Anthropologists, whether as critical academicians or as advocates for indigenous rights and welfare, have reason to take stock of the phenomenon of governance. For much may have changed during the last two decades since the end of the Marcos dictatorship yet so little is felt by the everyday person in what one social historian has referred to as this “changeless land.”

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http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/opinion/view_article.php?article_id=96679

Aghamtao 16

Aghamtao: Journal of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc. (UGAT) / Anthropological Association of the Philippines
Volume 16 / 2007

Citation:

To be uploaded soon

Table of Contents:

Natural Born Sailors? Reconsidering Stereotypes of Filipino Global Seafarers
Olivia Swift

From Real to Virtual: Ethnography of an On-Line Community
Zona Hildegrade S. Amper

Chismax to the Max: The Celebrity Gossip Economy
Marian C. Reyes

A Black Box-Tinkering Pedagogy
Myfel Joseph Paluga
Norberto Navarrete, Jr

Konserbasyon ng Pamana at ang Antropolohisto sa Panahon ng Globalismo
Rozanno Rufino

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UGAT 29th Annual Conference - The Practice of Governance

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

29th Annual Conference
“The Practice of Governance”
25 to 27 October 2007, Ateneo de Zamboanga University
Sponsor: Philippine Social Science Council and Ateneo de Zamboanga University

“Governance” issues are typically regarded as falling within the purview of political science, economics, sociology, and public administration. Without diminishing the contributions of these disciplines in the development of perspectives to understand and explain the administration of access to and provision of rights, services, and goods, anthropology looks at the interactions of state and non-state organizations. These include the way these interactions are shaped and redefined by strategies and subjectivities of agents pursuing various interests and agenda, including their intended and unintended consequences. At the same time, anthropology views regimes of governance as mediated by culturally and historically constituted (trans)local processes of ordering and regulating all areas of contemporary social life. Accordingly, conference papers will revolve around the following themes:

• conflict resolution and peace-building
• customary justice system
• asserting citizenship and entitlements
• culture of corruption (with audit and performance)
• urban governanceheritage (tangible, intangible, natural)
• ethnography of state violence
• governance and the regulation of kinship, gender and family
• eco-governance

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

• P1,800 (early registration until OCTOBER 12, 2007)
• Please deposit registration fee to PNB CA#275-830432-1 and submit registration information (name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, home/office phone no., mobile no., e-mail address) and copy of deposit slip by fax (+63-2-9263993), e-mail (ugat_aap@yahoo.com) or mail (UGAT Office, Philippine Social Science Bldg., Commonwealth Ave., Quezon City). Registration forms can be downloaded at www.geocities.com/ugat_aap.
• P2,500 (regular registration, walk-in)
• P2,250 (regular student rate, walk-in)

The registration fee covers the conference kit, half-day city tour, lunch and 2 snacks. Information on accommodations can be found at www.geocities.com/ugat_aap.

For other inquiries, please contact UGAT at 0918-6989445 or at ugat_aap@yahoo.com, or go to www.geocities.com/ugat_aap

Dish-Unity Gatherings

"Dish-Unity Gatherings" are held in UP Diliman, and participated in by UGAT members and UP Anthropology Alumni. Many of the participants are applying Anthropological knowledge and concepts in diverse fields including art, education, theater and broadcasting, and are interested to discuss the value of Anthropology for the public. Topics covered sofar include the following:

July: "'Cutting Edge Anthropology' in the US" (a discussion on hierarchies and carreers in Anthropology Departments in the US with Dr. Martin Manalansan, formerly with the UP Department of Anthropology, now based in Illinois)

August: "Where are UP Anthropology Alumni Today?", "'Public Interest Anthropology' and the Huluga Case", "Landmarks in UGAT History"

September: "'Knowledge Production in Anthropology in UP Diliman', a survey of MA/PhD topics through the years" (presented by Eufracio Abaya)

November: "Paradoxes in Philippine Education: Views from Anthropology"

January: "Ethics and politics of Archaeological Heritage Conservation" , "More UGAT History"

February: "Huluga, Himulugan, and other sites of archaeological significance in Cagayan de Oro"

May 3, 2008: "The Politics of Knowledge Production and Consumption in Philippine Education: Insights from Anthropology"

The aim is to continue to hold these informal gatherings every third Saturday of the Month.

The Theories of Performances of the Musics of Asia

The U.P. College of Music
The U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology

in cooperation with the

Musical Arts and Research ManagementFoundation, Inc.
Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts
Musicological Society of the Philippines
Ugnayang Pang-Agham Tao, Inc.

PRESENT

THEORIES OF PERFORMANCE IN THE MUSICS OF ASIA: A SYMPOSIUM

Inter-Active Forum on the Musics from Burma, China, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines

8:00-5:00 pm
27-28 February 2007
Abelardo Hall Auditorium
University of the Philippines Diliman
Free Admission

The Symposium on "The Theories of Performances of the Musics of Asia" is a meeting of experts from Myanmar (Burma), Indonesia, Iran, Okinawa Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, to present and demonstrate the uniqueness of both Asian music performance practice from both traditional and contemporary perspectives. The symposium shall be conducted in a round-table exchange consist of semi-formal presentations as well as free-wheeling discussion among the experts (presenters, reactors, demonstrators) , with time allocations for openforum.

In 2002, the Center for Ethnomusicology hosted the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Ethnomusicology with its theme: A Search for a New Theory of Music in Asia. This event generated a new awareness in viewing the musical cultures of Asia as truly a source of are thinking of musical values and understanding. The present event, though much more modest than the APSE conference, is intended to pursue the same goal. Having been authored by the founder of the UP Center for Ethnomusicology, National Artist José M. Maceda., this search for new understanding is partly to further substantiate his vision of a renaissance in the musics of Asia.

Creation of an Ethics Board and Procedures for Processing Complaints against Practitioners of Anthropology in the Philippines

BOARD RESOLUTION 2-2006

Creation of an Ethics Board and Procedures for Processing Complaints against Practitioners of Anthropology in the Philippines

Resolved, that complaints against any individual practicing Anthropology, or claiming to practice Anthropology, shall only be acted upon after receipt of a letter of complaint from any individual or organization.

Resolved further, that an UGAT Ethics Board shall be formed to investigate complaints. The Board shall recommend possible sanctions for members who will be found culpable for violation of the UGAT Code of Ethics.

Resolved further, that should the subject of a complaint not be a member of UGAT, the Ethics Board of UGAT will make representations with the institution that the person who is subject of the complaint is connected to.

Resolved further, that the following individuals are the members of the UGAT Ethics Board:

Julian Abuso – Chair
Ma. Luisa Lucas-Fernan – Vice Chair
Jose Eleazar Bersales – Member
Erlinda Burton – Member
Rolando Mascuñana – Member

Resolved further, that any member of the UGAT Ethics Board who is connected or implicated as complainant or defendant in any case brought to the Ethics Board, shall recuse himself/herself from the proceedings and the investigation which will be conducted in relation to the said case.

Approved on 18 December 2006

SU Hosts 28th UGAT Conference

SU Hosts 28th UGAT Conference
The Visayan Daily Star
Negros Oriental


The Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao Inc., or The Anthropological Association of the Philippines, held its 28th annual national conference at Silliman University, in Dumaguete City last week.

Silliman was also host to the 4th UGAT conference in 1981. About a hundred participants researchers, anthropology graduate students, teachers, and other related practitioners interested in the discipline, attended the conference.

The three-day conference was sponsored by the Philippine Social Science Council, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the UP Department of Anthropology.

Apart from holding annual national conferences and round-table discussions, UGAT sponsors symposia on various issues affecting indigenous peoples and related problems confronting the peasantry and the urban poor. It also undertakes research training to government organizations and non-government organizations, and seminar-workshops on health, literacy, nutrition and food technology, and people's advocacy affecting national policies.

The speech of Silliman University president Dr. Ben Malayang III was anchored on the theme, "The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization." Welcome messages were given by Dr. Betsy Joy Tan, SU vice-president for academic affairs; City Administrator Engr. Dominador Dumalag Jr.; Vice-Governor Jose Baldado; and, Dr. Eufracio Abaya, UGAT president.*RG

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2006/October/31/negor6.htm

UGAT 28th Annual Conference - The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization

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

28TH Annual Conference of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines
"The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization"
26-28 October 2006
Silliman University, Dumaguete City

Download UGAT 28th Annual Conference photos here:

http://rapidshare.de/files/39828000/061028_UGAT_28th_Annual_Conference.rar.html

Reinventing Anthropology

Reinventing Anthropology
The Visayan Daily Star
Opinions


It took a quarter of a century for Dumaguete City to play host again to the annual conference of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao Inc. whose 28th national conference ends today. Back in 1981, Silliman University hosted the fourth UGAT annual national conference with the theme, "The Anthropology of Power."

This year's theme, "The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization," is timely as it is relevant. Despite the advances brought about by development and modern technology, the issue of globalization is plagued by poverty, unemployment, lack of classrooms and textbooks, environmental degradation, and moral decadence. In short, globalization remains an empty word to a breadwinner of a family of six trying to make both ends meet. One of the points raised in the three-day conference was the view that migration and the distances created among people is detrimental to the Filipino family and culture.

It was figured out that it actually all depends on which perspective you are taking, the optimist's or the pessimist's. Or, as the analogy is brought further, it is like deciding whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. In the end, it is a mere re-configuring of households and the strategies they take to live a more decent life. There are values and structures that endure for a certain family that may not work well for other families, thus, it is ephemeral. Media play a role, too, in crafting a good life because of migration.

Anthropology has always been at the forefront of critical reflections of current and past issues. It empowers communities against all forms of violations of human rights engendered by globalization.*

http://www.visayandailystar.com/2006/October/28/opinion.htm

What’s New with the Tasadays?

What’s New with the Tasadays?
The search for lost identity

The controversial Tasadays lost their identity as a group because of fallacious media projection and faulty research.

Pink-Jean Fangon Melegrito
Dispatch
Posted with other reports by Bulatlat

BAGUIO CITY ­– The controversial Tasadays lost their identity as a group because of fallacious media projection and faulty research.

This was the observation made by two anthropology professors from the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City in a recent forum at UP Baguio. The forum, “What’s New about the Tasaday? Implications for Practice in (Public Interest) Anthropology,” was sponsored by the Department of Social Anthropology and Psychology, UP Baguio College of Social Sciences and the Ugnayang Pang-Agham Tao, Inc.) (UGAT, Inc. or anthropology network, incorporated).

In the forum, UP Diliman professors Ponciano Binnagen and Israel Cabanilla, anthropologists and indigenous people’s rights advocates spoke of their 2003 visit to the controversial Tasaday cave to search for the truth of the Tasaday existence. The existence of the Tasadays has been the subject of heated debate for over 30 years.

Manuel “Manda” Elizalde with a “Tasaday” native during the 1970s.
Photo copyright by John Nance

The “noble savage” in the Space Age
In 1971, during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, Manuel “Manda” Elizalde -- scion of a wealthy clan -- claimed to have discovered a group of “Stone Age” people dwelling in a cave near Mt. Tasaday, South Cotabato, Mindanao. Elizalde virtually made a career out of exposing the “Paleolithic” ways of these people, untouched by “civilization” from the modernizing outside world.

Journalists from noted international publications like the National Geographic, Search, Science News and Asiaweek, Charles Lindbergh and actress Gina Lollobrigida, among others, intrigued and eager to witness the existence of the Tasadays, visited the cave site one after the other. However, in 1973, the area was sealed off to all intruders.

Elizalde left the country 13 years later, after the ouster of the Marcos dictatorship. He died in 1997.

Other journalists would since then see the Tasadays wearing modern clothes. This generated heated debate in academic and media circles, with some dismissing the Tasadays as a hoax and Elizalde as a fraud.

The Tasaday fraud made it to the London-based Guardian’s 10 great hoaxes of the century.

The UP Department of Anthropology and UGAT, Inc. stepped into the debate by organizing an international conference on the Tasaday case in August 1986.

Tasadays: then and now
In the next several years after that, every mention of the Tasadays would give rise to the question of whether or not they really exist.

Further studies proved the existence of the real Tasaday. In a review of Robin Hemley’s Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (2003), writer James Paterson stated: “They are not a (Stone Age) tribe, but a remnant of a much larger group which at some point during the past centuries (not millennia) fled deeper into the forest to escape a measles epidemic that is still part of their folklore. In this way they became isolated long enough for their language to have acquired mutations and for them to have forgotten their farming habits and reverted to hunting-gathering.”

Binnagen and Cabanilla, together with National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) representatives, visited the Tasaday Cave in April 2003. On their way to the exact cave site, they encountered wet rice fields and Binnagen saw Manobo peasants. He asked if he could take pictures of them and just then, he learned that the farmers were actually Tasaday-Manobos -- a first encounter, for him, with the real Tasadays.

Upon entry into the cave site, Cabanilla immediately observed that the previous depiction of Tasaday cave-dwelling was completely a hoax. “There should be proofs of death -- skeletons of their ancestors; stone or metal tools they could have used and buried in the cave; and just by a single look, the cave could never allow survival for as short as one year,” he explained.

As he conducted preliminary exploration of the cave, which was never done before, he explained that it could only have been frequented but never inhabited for long. Food, water, sunlight, shelter and “the view” are some of the survival needs, he said.

The Tasaday cave has only a foot-high riverside that could never allow enough water animals for their food. It allows sunlight to get through for only eight hours at most. The cave’s mouth also provides little view of the surroundings, making it impossible for the dwellers to observe enemies or at least see the other caves. Lastly, the cave is too dusty -- cement-like dust falls from the cave ceiling -- to offer permanent living.

Binnagen and Cabanilla learned that the Tasaday people, who proudly call themselves as the Tasaday-Manobo-Blit group (some Tasadays married Manobos and Blits), are now struggling for self-determination and ancestral domain (29,247 has. of forest reserve that Marcos had set aside for them in Proclamation No. 995.)

“Despite the controversy they (Tasaday) faced, I think they are actually the victims, and the Tasaday are entitled to claim their rights to their own land and of course, real identity as indigenous peoples of Mindanao,” Binnagen asserted.

The logos-ethos from the Tasaday “hoax”

The controversy affected the Tasadays’ trust in people coming from the “outside. Binnagen said that some of the Tasadays were anxious that another team might come and “exploit” them by selling pictures of their “savage” ways of living. Cabanilla and Binnagen both assured the Tasaday people of the authenticity of their research – to help them claim their domain and identity.

Members of UGAT, Inc. emphasize the importance of practicing ethics in performing studies, research and enthnography on communities. Future anthropologists and archaeologists must ensure that a free prior and informed consent is issued to them before any conduct of study to avoid offending the community to be studied, they say.

“We actually require our members (UGAT, Inc.) and students to provide translation in the language of the community studied so the people themselves understand what their history, ethnicity and identity are about. It’s the least way a researcher can repay the people,” Binnagen said. Northern Dispatch / Posted with other reports by Bulatlat

(Bulatlat Editor’s Note: A former staff member of Elizalde who is now living in the United States, has confessed that the Tasaday “stone age” site was actually a monumental hoax.)

http://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-32/6-32-tasaday.htm

Appropriating Indigenous Cultures of the Philippines : Festivals and Other Spectacles

The SUBCOMMISSION ON CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND TRADITIONAL ARTS of the NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND THE ARTS invites you to a 3-day conference, “Appropriating Indigenous Cultures of the Philippines : Festivals and Other Spectacles,” to mark the Indigenous Peoples Month in October this year.

The congress will set the stage for the discussion and evaluation of the modes of appropriation of indigenous resources in cultural practice as well as the formulation of policy recommendations to heighten public awareness of the integrity of indigenous cultures in the country.

Paper presenters and discussants come from Indigenous Peoples (IP) organizations, the academe, art and culture agencies, media organizations, film industry, advertising agencies, tourism industry, and other related governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The congress is in line with NCCA’s mandate to protect the integrity of cultural symbols and meanings in tangible and intangible traditions (i.e. social values, moral and ethical standards) of indigenous peoples in the Philippines .

The event will be held at the Philippine Social Science Center on 19 to 21 October 2006. You can direct your inquiries to 0917-5336578 or 0915-9915051 or to appro_ncca@yahoo.com or see http://www.ncca.gov.ph/ for more information.

The conference is free to the public.