{"title":"Culture \u0026 Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLearn more about how Filipinos live, work, and think across different eras and regions. These books examine social norms, family structures, pop culture, urban life, and changing values.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-fabulous-fiestas-of-the-philippines","title":"The Fabulous Fiestas of the Philippines","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eKado Publishing presents this series of children's Seek and Find books designed to celebrate Southeast Asian culture, and history. In this Filipino Fiestas edition, learn about some of the most popular Filipino festivals, as well as Filipino icons, heroes, food, fruits, and more. Enjoy the interactive \"I spy\" pages, and take in the colorful scenes that reflect the uniqueness of the country and its people.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-rte-list=\"default\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580985467172,"sku":"PB-10118","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/33.jpg?v=1751981921"},{"product_id":"a-study-of-philippine-games-lopez","title":"A Study of Philippine Games by Mellie Leandicho Lopez","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis book is an exhaustive study that may well be the first attempt to analyze and systematically classify traditional Filipino games, an important aspect of the Filipino culture and traditional heritage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...There is no doubt that this marvelous compilation of Philippine games will take its rightful place in the history of folklore research as one of the major collections of traditional games. For this reason, folklorist of the present and of the future stand greatly indebted to Mellie Leandicho Lopez for her remarkable achievement in recording and preserving so important a portion of the traditional heritage of the Philippines.\" --Alan Dundes, Chairman, Folklore Program, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580990578980,"sku":"PB-10113","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/48_2974ce42-b8e0-4ced-9627-2a3dd8c824a2.jpg?v=1751981839"},{"product_id":"slow-food-philippine-culinary-traditions","title":"Slow Food: Philippine Culinary Traditions","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"A delicious serving of nostalgic and informative pieces mostly from known gourmets and gourmands. The book gives the background behind slow-coo ing family recipes and traces stomach links between grandmas, moms and pops and their cooking daughters and sons. A winner!\" — Gilda Cordero-Fernando\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This mouth-watering book makes us reflect on slow\/fast food, and calls to mind an obscure quote from Jose Rizal. In the manner of a Zen koan, he said 'Hay mas dias que longanisas.' Based on the references to food and cooking in his novels and writings, it would probably be safe to presume that he would be an advocate of slow food and would relish this book as much as I have enjoyed it.' ---Ambeth R. Ocampo, Chair, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Chair, National Historical Institute\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Like slow love, slow food whets the appetite even as this is being fed. The symbiotic action can only ensure a continuum of layered, crossover demand and appreciation. It also provides a fine counterpoint to the fast-track quality of lives often spent on quick, wham-bam indulgences. Hours spent on loving ministry over a fire or any other heating element can only ensure full satisfaction. That is also how we many indulge in this book, a little at a time, appreciating the continuing flame of its traditional passion, Pinoy-style- in customary tingi, a nibble here, a nibble there, while already smacking our lips at the prospect of further dalliances. Gorge on this book slowly, on love slowly, and we will then assure Doreen Fernandez that nothing ever be endangered\" -- Krip Yuson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580991168804,"sku":"PB-10077","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/12.jpg?v=1751981836"},{"product_id":"pugot-head-taking-ritual-cannibalism-and-human-sacrifice-in-the-philippines","title":"Pugot: Head Taking, Ritual Cannibalism, and Human Sacrifice in the Philippines","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePrior to the introduction of Islam and Christianity deeply held religious beliefs led various Philippine communities to sanction ritualized forms of violence: human sacrifice, cannibalism, and head taking. Today, many Filipinos see these practices as \"primitive,” \"barbaric,\" or pertaining only to so-called \"tribes\" and therefore not related to the national dynamic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003ePúgot: Head Taking, Ritual Cannibalism, and Human Sacrifice in the Philippines forces Filipino readers to contemplate and confront the not-so-ancient past, when their ancestors sported loincloths, battle gear, and talismans, and participated in violent community-wide celebrations and rituals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe book also reveals these practices not in isolation, but as part of the wider Southeast Asian and Austronesian milieu. The multilingual primary and secondary texts used for this work are sourced from across centuries and disciplines, including 13th to 18th century Chinese records, Spanish-period missionary chronicles, and European and American ethnographies from the late 19th to early 20th century, as well as folkloric accounts and epics. Encyclopedic in its approach and comparative in its analysis, this ambitious book weaves together historical data and archaeological studies with traditional myths, legends, and songs to create a seamless narrative of some of the most misunderstood aspects of Philippine culture and to shed light on deeply rooted cultures of violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580992086308,"sku":"PB-10126","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/84_415c477f-5d22-494c-9b09-e104fa8b7d03.jpg?v=1751981820"},{"product_id":"you-shall-be-as-gods-anting-anting-and-the-filipino-quest-for-mystical-power-villegas","title":"You Shall be as Gods: Anting-Anting and the Filipino Quest for Mystical Power by Dennis S. Villegas","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eTo many Filipinos, the anting-anting is more than simply a protective talisman or good-luck charm. It is part of an elaborate system of beliefs that has evolved over centuries, synthesizing the animist, spirituality of ancient precolonial Filipinos with the Catholic doctrines brought by Spanish colonizers. In times of colonial rule, fervent belief in the anting-anting’s mystical properties was a way for the oppressed to rise and stand equal to their oppressors. Over time, it became a way for ordinary Filipinos—particularly the poor and downtrodden—to assert power over their own destinies. Today, this belief system continues to manifest itself in daily life with its complex hierarchies, manifold trials and rituals, dense symbolism, and flights into mysticism and the unknown.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-rte-list=\"default\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580992971044,"sku":"PB-10127","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/1_d9fc594d-cfad-46a2-af37-d3a1f089bd10.jpg?v=1751981818"},{"product_id":"looking-for-the-prehispanic-filipino","title":"Looking for the Prehispanic Filipino (Revised Edition) by William Henry Scott","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFor 25 years, William Henry Scott rebuilt the 16th-century Philippine culture by careful scrutiny of contemporary documents. In an earlier work, Cracks in the Parchment Curtain, he demonstrated just how much information could be culled from little known Spanish records. Of these sources he wrote, \"Original letters and reports, bickering complaints among conquistadores, appeals for support, rewards, and promotion, long-winded recommendations that were never implemented, and decrees inspired by local obstruction of government goal, all these contain direct or implied references to Filipino behavior and conditions.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn the present collection, Scott continues his meticulous scholarship to present new insights into the life of the Filipino people at the time of Spanish advent. In the title essay, he shows how mistranslations and colonial preconceptions have distorted our understanding of indigenous cultures, and in another, he demythologizes the so-called Papal Line of Demarcation. Other pieces describe Philippine slavery, Tagalog technology, Cebuano politics, and Visayan agriculture, literature and religion. And a remarkable 1595 document criticizing the Spanish occupation, he translates as \"The conquerors as seen by the conquered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580995494180,"sku":"PB-10131","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/68_8405a27d-586b-4e0d-85ea-a2e547c57b92.jpg?v=1751981814"},{"product_id":"filipino-style","title":"Filipino Style by Rene Javellana, Fernando Zialcita, and Elizabeth Reyes","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFilipino Style extols the Philippines' design heritage and demonstrates how the traditions of yesteryear — through both native and colonial history — have evolved into the main strands of modern-day Filipino style. The text of Filipino Style, written by authoritative anthropologists and art historians, traces Filipino style from its pre-Hispanic origins among the tribal and the natural; through the cosmopolitan influences of Spain, China and the Americas; and explores the most modern and varied examples of Filipino architecture today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe final chapter brings readers into the traditional \u003cem\u003eilustrado\u003c\/em\u003e homes of the past by illustrating the refinements of Filipino furniture. The photographs, created by two of Southeast Asia's most experienced photographers, take the reader on a visual journey through the archipelago's diverse styles. Photographs of interiors and exteriors with details of selected heirlooms and furniture provide a broad views of Filipino style that is sure to inspire any reads to discover more about this fascinating country.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-rte-list=\"default\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580995952932,"sku":"PB-10135","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/Filipino_Style.jpg?v=1767015650"},{"product_id":"pasko-essays-on-the-filipino-christmas","title":"Pasko: Essays on the Filipino Christmas","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWhen was the first Christmas celebrated in the Philippines? What started the tradition of \"Simbang Gabi\"? Who wrote the first Philippine carol? Who created the first Philippine lantern or \"parol\"? How was Christmas celebrated at the turn of the century or during the war? How did the Americans bring a \"White Christmas\" mentality to our native \"Pasko\"? Finally, the answers to all the questions that have crossed our minds since the day we first heard of Santa Claus, are to be found in this fascinating compendium of Christmas essays. Pasko is the first major anthology of writings devoted exclusively to this most beloved of Filipino feasts.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-rte-list=\"default\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580996477220,"sku":"PB-10139","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/27_e915c624-01c1-4dbb-977f-e7097289edfa.jpg?v=1751981801"},{"product_id":"household-antiques-and-heirlooms","title":"Household Antiques and Heirlooms by Felice Prudente Sta. Maria and Ben A. Laxina","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eDid you know that our generic term for the oil lamp with a glass chimney, kinke, comes from its original supplier to the Islands, the Quinquet Factory of France? That Luzon was named after lusong, the rice mortar (now a collectible) that early Spanish soldiers found under every nipa hut?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThese are only some of the pithy tidbits in the book by Felice Sta. Maria which inventories the contents of a late 19th century and early 20th century house. The earthly possessions of the rich were dazzling indeed! The writer places the furniture, lamps, glassware, china and silver, art and decorations, toys and clothes and kitchenware in the context of our ancestors' gracious and festive lifestyle. How disconcerting to find out that we imported everything from bathtubs to thimbles - and that the imports were hardly Europe's or America's best. Not a whit of it, however, subtracts from the value and charm that time, grime and nostalgia have bestowed on Philippine antiques.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-rte-list=\"default\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580996542756,"sku":"PB-10140","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/19_94b71bce-dc5f-4307-bf11-73b480e921be.jpg?v=1751981799"},{"product_id":"basagan-ng-trip","title":"Basagan ng Trip: Complaints about Filipino Culture and Politics","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Walang basagan ng trip,” is one of the vilest phrases in colloquial Tagalog, reflecting a long anti-critic tradition in Philippine arts. When artists use the term, they are asking critical voices to shut up and smile: Don’t criticize my work (my “trip”); we’re all just trying to be happy here. Shouldn’t art, after all, be fun?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eBeing a critic and essayist was, one could say, my only means of self-expression. Indeed, I cannot create, so I just complain. I’ve made some complaints that have offended many (declaring OPM dead) and I’ve made some more popular ones (calling out Tito Sotto for being a sexist). And, yes, I am proud to call them complaints, because complainers believe that things are wrong and can be changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWelcome to the world of the second-class citizen in the republic of arts and letters—the much-maligned “tagabasag ng trip.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580998508836,"sku":"PB-10047","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/14_b0e692b0-98b6-446e-bf65-3a0797a08b6c.jpg?v=1751981782"},{"product_id":"gilda-cordero-fernando-sampler","title":"Gilda Cordero Fernando Sampler","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFrom the foreword by Mariel N. Francisco: \"The whirlwind of creative energy that is Gilda Cordero-Fernando only seems to gather more force as she moves (incredibly!) toward her 80's. Creating her art fills all her waking hours-which these days have abandoned the circadian rhythm and simply go with the ceaseless flow of her inspirations. More and more it becomes clear to her that art is what will save our country, so it is where she must make a contribution... now comes this fine sheaf of offerings, featuring not only her writing but her extraliterary activities. The gaps in the circle that is the creative self gently close.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581000311076,"sku":"PB-10053","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/63_02c8f276-eeab-4048-8711-eb09c12e5534.jpg?v=1751981755"},{"product_id":"elites-and-ilustrados-in-philippine-culture","title":"Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe Filipino “elites\" have a starring role as heroes and villains in Philippine history. So-called \u003cem\u003eilustrados\u003c\/em\u003e were vanguards of the Propaganda Movement whose writing helped inspire the Philippine Revolution in the late nineteen century. Manila's middle sector and elites based in municipalities actively participated in the Philippine Revolution. But the Filipino elites have also been taken to task for betraying the Revolution, for putting their selfish, factional interest above those of the nation and the \"masses,\" for the collaborating with the American's, and being the principal beneficiaries of the colonial democracy and the post-colonial elite democracy that have plunged the country into crisis for most of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581002473764,"sku":"PB-10094","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/36_f9879e22-3ac8-420c-8cfe-ca2e2e971a86.jpg?v=1751981729"},{"product_id":"weaving-cultures-the-invention-of-colonial-art-and-culture-in-the-philippines","title":"Weaving Cultures: The Invention of Colonial Art and Culture in the Philippines 1565-1850","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #4a4a4a;\"\u003eThis book reads the emergence of a unique art and culture in the Philippines during the colonial era from the optic of communications theory and the emerging theoretical discourse from information design. It views colonial exchange not primarily as an exchange of cultural goods, tangible or intangible, but as a negotiation forged by the communication between sender and receiver. In such a process, the cultural good is ineluctably transformed as it leaves the context of the sender and is transferred to the context of the receiver, who may be antipodes of each other—physically, psychologically, and culturally—as was the case of Filipinos and Europeans. Exchanges in the areas of space, the biota, the visual, literary, performative, culinary, and sartorial arts are traced. How messages are transmitted, decoded, and transformed to create the new reality of colonial art and culture are documented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581002604836,"sku":"PB-10100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/29_3d25d05e-e161-4b7c-9b0e-6456fcd91464.jpg?v=1751981727"},{"product_id":"barangay-sixteenth-century-philippine-culture-and-society","title":"Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003eFrom the Introduction: This book presents a sixteenth-century Philippine ethnography based on contemporaneous sources. It does not attempt to reconstruct that society by consideration of present Philippine societies, or of features believed to be common to all Austronesian peoples. Nor does it seek similarities with neighboring cultures in Southeast Asia, though the raw data presented should be of use to scholars who might wish to do so. Rather it seeks to answer the question: What did the Spaniards actually say about the Filipino people when they first met them? It is hoped that the answer to that question will permit Filipino readers today to pay a vicarious visit to the land of their ancestors four centuries ago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0f1111;\"\u003ePart 1 describes Visayan culture in eight chapters on physical appearance, food and farming, trades and commerce, religion, literature and entertainment, natural science, social organization, and warfare. Part 2 surveys the rest of the archipelago from south to north.\u003cstrong style=\"color: #1f2124; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581002866980,"sku":"PB-10097","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/22_a246e8c6-ddd6-4f2d-8fb9-146141f7db40.jpg?v=1751981723"},{"product_id":"manila-men-in-the-new-world-mercene","title":"Manila Men in the New World by Floro L. Mercene","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe Filipino diaspora is at least 400 years old. Since the 16th century, Filipinos have been going to foreign lands to find their place in the sun. In the beginning they were known as the Manila Men. It was only in the 19th century that they assumed their present identity as Filipinos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFor two-and-a-half centuries, Filipinos by the hundreds traveled yearly to Mexico and the Americas, with many electing to stay and find a new life. The chief means for migration was the Manila galleon, also known as \u003cem\u003enao de China\u003c\/em\u003e, that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico to carry on a lively trade in Asian goods in exchange for silver from the Americas and the trappings of civilization from the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThe end of the galleon trade in 1815 did not stop the exodus of Filipinos to foreign lands as they began to discover the lure of other exotic ports in Asia and Europe. This book attempts to answer the question often asked: What happened to those Filipinos who started the diaspora? The answers are important because they fill a gap in the long history of this adventurous race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581003981092,"sku":"PB-10084","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/BookPhotos2_fcc9b8d6-0eb4-46b6-a0ab-c7f73bf26c1b.jpg?v=1751981695"},{"product_id":"clothing-the-colony-stephanie-coo","title":"Clothing the Colony by Stephanie Coo","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“This book is, to date, the most comprehensive and rigorously-researched study on the forms of dress worn by almost all types and classes of inhabitants of the Philippines under Spain from 1820 to 1896.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eUsing an interdisciplinary approach, it systematically and perspicaciously shows the inextricable links between these attires and the rapidly changing economic, political, religious, and social conditions of the nineteenth century, which, among others, witnessed the opening of the islands to international trade, the consequent rise of a mestizo elite, and the formation of groups of Filipinos who would eventually assert their identity through the ideology of reform, and later, revolution at century’s end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWritten in a lucid style and appropriately documented with prints and photographs of the period, this work is an indispensable source book for all artists who design for theater, film, television, and the fashion industry, as well as historians of all persuasions and Filipinophiles of all nations.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Nicanor G. Tiongson, PhD, professor emeritus, University of the Philippines-Diliman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581004046628,"sku":"PB-10079","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/92_cc6069b0-3666-406d-9107-ef0c698d64c9.jpg?v=1751981693"},{"product_id":"the-philippines-is-not-a-small-country-gideon-lasco","title":"The Philippines is Not a Small Country by Gideon Lasco","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis book is an exploration of the Philippines as a beautiful land, a home to a diversity of peoples, a nation-in-the-making, and a country at the heart of the world. Drawing from anthropology, history, contemporary events, popular culture, and the author’s field experiences and travels, the essays draw connections between nature and culture, self and society, the local and the global, as well as the past and the present in order to arrive at a deeper, fuller, critical, yet hopeful view of a country that is larger than many imagine it to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581004144932,"sku":"PB-10086","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/1_41ed7261-f6f7-4b8e-b098-c6b658ab6c37.jpg?v=1751981691"},{"product_id":"good-manners-pinoy-style","title":"Good Manners: Pinoy Style by Lola Z","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"Hindi natin dapat kalimutan ang habilin ng Pangulong Manuel L. Quezon sa bawat Pilipino: \"'Mamuhay na gaya ng inaasahan sa iyo.ng marangal na tradisyon ng ating lahi. Ilang dekada rin ang binilang bago magbalikbayan si Lola Z. Maliban sa mga panlabas na pagbabago na kanyang napuna, mas binigyan niya ng pansin at halaga ang mga kaugaliang Pilipino na kanya rin namang natutunan sa kanyang mga magulang at ninuno, mga guro at mga kapwa Pilipino na naging huwaran ng mabuting kalooban at marangal na pamumuhay. Patunay ito na hindi niya tinalikuran ang kanyang pinanggalingan. Maraming kayamanan ng kaugaliang Pilipino ang matutuklasan sa mga pahinang ito- mula sa pangangalaga ng bata habang nasa sinapupunan pa ng ina hanggang sa kanyang paglaki, pagpasok sa eskuwela at simbahan, pagkain at paglalakbay, pagliligawan, at pagtatrabaho sa opisina. Hindi niya nakalimutan na magbigay ng payo tungkol sa paggamit ng cell phone, email, at Facebook. Isang natatanging kontribusyon ang handog ni Lola Z para sa Generation X, Y, at Z: mga mabubuting kaugaliang Pilipino, maipagmamalaki kahit saan sa mundo!\" — Bro. Armin Luistro, FSC, Former Philippine Secretary of Education, President of De La Salle University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581004734756,"sku":"PB-10105","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/29_988a879d-5e58-49d8-97fe-ab1af6f30ee8.jpg?v=1751981671"},{"product_id":"chinese-traders-in-a-philippine-town","title":"Chinese Traders in a Philippine Town","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eBased on three decades of anthropological field research, Chinese Traders in a Philippine Town addresses two aspects of a provincial town in the Philippines. First, it examines the town's Chinese trade community as composed of individuals and families who follow commercial ends with varying degrees as success by means of a wide range of competitive tactics. Second, it describes changes the town has experienced during recent decades and how these have been to a large degree to the result of long-term, commercial strategies followed by substantial Chinese entrepreneurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn the first part of the study, the experience of a textile merchant, his family, and acquaintances during the past forty years serves as a linchpin around which dimensions in the daily life of the town's Chinese community are illustrated. Among the factors discussed that are significant to the community are competitive sales tactics, participation in ventures and deals, the growing importance of real estate, and the role of kin and marriage in commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn the second part, the focus of this study shifts to a more diachronic approach in an effort to understand changes in the town's built environment, especially as reflected in retail facilities ranging from traditional market places and street stores, to modern malls and fast-food outlets. Here the careers of a few, local Chinese entrepreneurs are traced: Of special interest is the manner in which their competitive relations, while trying to dominate the local economic\/political scene, has impacted on the town's development. The backdrop of this narrative and analysis includes a major earthquake, increasing participation of Chinese in the political process, and the growing pressure emanating from large, Manila-based Chinese trade enterprises.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eReaders interested in Third World urban development and in middleman minorities will find this study of considerable interest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581007192356,"sku":"PB-10098","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/62_909aaed3-1c5a-42ab-b219-9e7ab8c4efb4.jpg?v=1751981670"},{"product_id":"chinese-and-chinese-mestizos-of-manila","title":"Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFor centuries, the Chinese have been intermarrying with inhabitants of the Philippines, resulting in a creolized community of Chinese mestizos under the Spanish colonial regime. In contemporary Philippine society, the “Chinese” are seen as a racialized “Other” while descendants from early Chinese-Filipino intermarriages as “Filipino.” Previous scholarship attributes this development to the identification of Chinese mestizos with the equally “Hispanicized” and “Catholic” indios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eBuilding on works in Chinese transnationalism and cultural anthropology, this book examines the everyday practices of Chinese merchant families in Manila from the 1860s to the 1930s. The result is a fascinating study of how families and individuals creatively negotiate their identities in ways that challenge our understanding of the genesis of ethnic identities in the Philippines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581007257892,"sku":"PB-10099","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/66_3a0398d7-c52d-475d-a449-158847bd02c2.jpg?v=1751981668"},{"product_id":"entertaining-with-ease-etiquette-and-protocol-for-the-modern-filipino","title":"Entertaining with Ease: Etiquette and Protocol for the Modern Filipino","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“A book of etiquette and protocol for Filipinos today is a practical manual for hostesses and party-givers of many kinds and levels. This book, however, goes beyond ‘how-to’ to indicate ‘why’ and ‘so what.’ It alludes to our innate hospitality, to our other-orientedness, to our wish to make guests experience the warmth of family and friendship. Such a book must be — and this one is — rooted in the ethos that identifies the Filipino.” — Doreen G. Fernandez\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45581007618340,"sku":"PB-10089","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/40_6ab41ab9-77c8-4a92-b011-fbe6b640ba7e.jpg?v=1751981661"},{"product_id":"the-sulu-zone-1768-1898","title":"The Sulu Zone: 1768-1898 by James Francis Warren","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst published in 1981, The Sulu Zone has become a classic in the field of Southeast Asian history. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebook deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural, and historical \"border zone\" centered on the Sulu \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand Celebes Seas between 1768 and 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the West. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe author examines the social and cultural forces generated within the Sulu Sultanate by the China \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etrade, namely, the advent of organized, long-distance maritime slave raiding and the assimilation of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecaptives on a hitherto unprecedented scale into a traditional Malayo-Muslim social system. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames Francis Warren is Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian Modern \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistory at Murdoch University, having previously held positions at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAustralian National University and Yale University. He has also been a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprofessorial research fellow at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKyoto University and the Asia Research Institute of the National University \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof Singapore. He has been awarded grants by the Social Science Research \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCouncil and the Australia Research Council and is a fellow of the Australian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcademy of the Humanities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46496038322468,"sku":"PB-10156","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/11_f7af22c5-e92f-4505-9384-820dea838724.jpg?v=1751981629"},{"product_id":"philippine-folk-literature-series-the-riddles-eugenio","title":"Philippine Folk Literature Series: The Riddles by Damiana L. Eugenio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhilippine Folk Literature: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Riddles constitutes Volume V of the author's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeight-volume Philippine Folk Literature Series. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe present collection concentrates on the riddle, which may be defined as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003equestion stated so as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering it or discovering its \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emeaning. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis work is intended to be a national collection of Philippine riddles a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eputting together of available collections of riddles from all over the country, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBatanes to Jolo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe riddles are listed, according to solution, under nineteen subject categories \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand one \"Miscellaneous\" category Within each \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egroup, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe riddles are arranged \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealphabetically, according to answer, or solution, in English translation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor each entry, the riddle in English translation is given first. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThen under it are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elisted the different Philippine versions of the riddle, in geographical order: Luzon, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVisayas, Mindanao. Every Philippine version carries with it a language label and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esource (collector\/collection). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo give the reader an idea of the richness and variety of the images of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecomparison used in the metaphorical riddles, the most dominant and striking of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethese are listed in an Index.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46930824823076,"sku":"PB-10157","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/1_71a08a5f-87fe-4b09-851b-a41ec0c8357f.jpg?v=1751981619"},{"product_id":"philippine-folk-literature-series-the-legends-eugenio","title":"Philippine Folk Literature Series: The Legends by Damiana L. Eugenio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCompiled and edited by Damiana L. Eugenio — known as the Mother of Philippine Folklore — this third volume in the eight-volume Philippine Folk Literature Series focuses on the legend: extraordinary accounts of happenings believed to have actually occurred. The Introduction offers a detailed characterization of the legend, distinguishes it from the folktale, and presents a system of classification with examples drawn from the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive categories are represented: heroic and historical legends about epic heroes, historical personages, and figures with extraordinary powers; religious legends recounting miracles of God and His saints; legends of encounters with supernatural beings such as the aswang, cafre, and duende; miscellaneous legends about sunken bells, buried treasure, and the like; and place-name legends. Within each category, selections are arranged by geographic region — Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao — and given in English translation. Intended to be national in scope, the collection draws widely from the country's major ethno-linguistic groups, making it as broadly representative of Philippine legendary tradition as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46932040810788,"sku":"PB-10164","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/1_6462c763-cdc1-4c5a-b001-47468a4c40aa.jpg?v=1751981617"},{"product_id":"philippine-folk-literature-series-the-epics-eugenio","title":"Philippine Folk Literature Series: The Epics by Damiana L. Eugenio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhilippine Folk Literature: The Epics presents twenty-three folk epics \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecollected from some fourteen ethnolinguistic groups in the country. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the eighth volume being added to the original seven-volume \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhilippine Folk Literature Series. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFolk epics are long heroic narratives in verse which recount the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eadventures of tribal heroes and in the process express the customs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebeliefs, and ideals of the people who sing them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe introductory essay, The Philippine Folk Epic,\" gives a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edetailed discussion of the features and characteristics of Philippine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efolk epics their geographic distribution; epic singing and singers; the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eepic hero, his adventures and his outstanding qualities; epic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econventions; dominant motifs: and the customs, beliefs, and values e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003expressed in them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe epics are arranged in geographic order from north to south, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003estarting with Lam-ang (Northern Luzon), then to Labaw Donggon \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Visayas), and on to Mindanao, where the greatest number of our folk \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eepics come from (Tuwaang, Agyu, Bantugan, etc.). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA distinctive feature of Philippine epic literature is that while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eother countries have one national epic hero (e.g., England's Beowulf, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpain's El Cid, etc.), the Philippines has no national epic hero but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emore than a dozen tribal epic heroes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis volume thus gives the reader an opportunity to get \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eacquainted with these folk epic heroes and the values and ideals they \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStand for. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs in the other volumes in the Philippine Folk Literature Series, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe selections are given in English translation, but a sampling of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etext in the original language is given at the beginning of each \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eselection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46932214186276,"sku":"PB-21300","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/6_4382f563-869f-49c5-881f-256dd692c9b3.jpg?v=1751981615"},{"product_id":"history-of-the-bisayan-people-in-the-philippine-islands-vol-1","title":"History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands: Volume 1 of 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrancisco Ignacio Alcina, S.J. spent 37 years among the Bisayan people of Samar and Leyte before completing his nine-volume Historia de las islas e indios de Bisayas in 1668, and this bilingual edition — translated into English for the first time in 2002 — makes the first volume of that monumental work accessible to a modern readership. It is the most extensive ethnographic record of any Philippine region at the point of Western contact, documenting the Bisayans' syllabic writing system, oral poetry, cosmology, music, and religious beliefs as Alcina observed them firsthand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46980706271524,"sku":"PB-10170","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/9_749d7606-5b39-4226-bc5f-3c6846396ac0.jpg?v=1751981604"},{"product_id":"pinoy-pop-culture","title":"Pinoy Pop Culture","description":"\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47002880606500,"sku":"PB-10173","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/23_211579a8-5bdb-49ea-a8e8-3757bf8eef4a.jpg?v=1751981600"},{"product_id":"history-of-the-bisayan-people-in-the-philippine-islands-vol-2","title":"History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands: Volume 2 of 3","description":"\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47002881098020,"sku":"PB-10171","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/1_4fc1cc3f-e190-419c-8253-a118c7332ec4.jpg?v=1751981596"},{"product_id":"history-of-the-bisayan-people-in-the-philippine-islands-vol-3","title":"History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands: Volume 3 of 3","description":"\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47003399815460,"sku":"PB-10172","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/17_e0ab70ec-1c00-4e15-ba7f-73febf80f2f4.jpg?v=1751981594"},{"product_id":"the-tobacco-in-the-philippines","title":"The Tobacco Monopoly: Bureaucratic Enterprise and Social Change, 1766-1880","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTobacco Monopoly analyzes the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emechanics of one of the most durable of Spanish colonial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einnovations and explores the effects it had on the lives of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eindigenous population. By focusing on the development of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eenterprise in the Cagayan Valley, where tobacco played an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eimportant part in the economy and in the society, the book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecombines institutional and regional history. Tobacco Monopoly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshows how this bureaucratic enterprise, in operation for nearly a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehundred years, first served and later undermined the economic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand political objectives of the colonial government.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEd. C. De Jesus is associate professor at the Asian Institute of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eManagement, where he holds the Don Andres Soriano Chair of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBusiness History. He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUniversity with an Honors B.A. in the Humanities, cum laude. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter graduate courses in East Asian and U.S. Diplomatic History \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eat the Ateneo and the University of Kansas, he proceeded to Yale \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUniversity, where he obtained the Ph.D. in Southeast Asian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistory in 1973. Since joining the Asian Institute of Management, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe has ventured into the field of Philippine business history and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas published a number of monographs on the emergence of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eleading business institutions in the country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47004438495524,"sku":"PB-10176","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/47_317b2088-d323-40d4-991f-4966d8271d1f.jpg?v=1751981583"},{"product_id":"a-question-of-heroes-by-nick-joaquin","title":"A Question of Heroes by Nick Joaquin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThrough his critical essays on ten key figures in Philippine history, Nick Joaquin provides a fresh point of view on Philippine heroes and their role in the Philippine revolutionary tradition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The Revolution of the Ilustrados \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere were two distinct but simultaneous revolutions in 1896, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elinked only by the Katipunan. The first was the Maileños' and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit actually lasted only a week:; the second was the Caviteños' and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit lasted about five years. Which one do we mean when we speak \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the 'Unfinished Revolution'? But from a larger view, there \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas only one revolution in 1896-and it was not Bonifacio's, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethough he tried to ride it. This larger view compels us to see the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eentire period from the Propaganda Movement to the Philippine-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican War as a single event: the Revolution of the llustrados.\" -- Nick Joaquin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350497476900,"sku":"PB-10193","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/25_1fce89ba-26e6-4a63-a8de-c9b909cd8a31.jpg?v=1751981557"},{"product_id":"culture-and-history-by-nick-joaquin","title":"Culture and History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWho is the Filipino? What makes him so? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNational Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin answers these \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003equestions in Culture and History, a groundbreaking treatise \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon Philippine history and Filipino identity, and how the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etools of our native and adopted cultures have shaped both. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith profound, thought-provoking, timeless essays that take \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFilipino readers back in time to rediscover their roots, as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewell as challenge preconceived notions on the meaning of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eculture and history and the intricate makings of the Filipino \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epsyche, Culture and History exhibits Nick Joaquin vivid, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enostalgic, ingenious prose and keen insight that only a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebrilliant writer and perceptive historian can deliver.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Our culture and history may be said to be a process converting a mix of cabbages and kings into something different. And the novelty is this nation-in-the-making called the Philippines, this identity-in-progress called the Filipino.\" -- Nick Joaquin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350525788452,"sku":"PB-10192","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/16_17640582-8ffe-44ab-92ae-33192ac47e86.jpg?v=1751981554"},{"product_id":"ongpin-stories-by-r-kwan-laurel","title":"Ongpin Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Ongpin Stories, R. Kwan Laurel takes us \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto the Chinese-Filipino enclave that is Binon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edo to wander into the Chinaman's mishmash \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof merchandise-race, class, and the search \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor belonging. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDigging our chopsticks into these stories, we \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexamine a teenage boy raised in a strict Chinese \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehousehold struggling to pass his Mandarin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elessons; a radical teacher whose pure motives \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyield to miscalculated actions; a policeman and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehis insane friend's search fo gold; a mathematical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egenius who dreams of leaving for Hong Kong; a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFilipino sales clerk and his forbidden fondness for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe eldest daughter of a Chinese businessman; a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egrandmother fighting an illness neither traditional \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emedicine nor modern science can cure; a father's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estruggle to preserve his family's small business. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrilliantly observed, these stories of people \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efinding their place in a new world while struggling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto hold back the seeping influences of their adopted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecountry linger long after we've savored the feast \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat is Ongpin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I hope you have pursued your Ongpin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estory as far as it can go. l know you are on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etrack and need only to go on. Ongpin lives in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethese stories.\" -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNVM Gonzalez\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350564192548,"sku":"PB-10191","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/1_a6f5b7de-15f7-4cb9-916f-7f8a43ee387e.jpg?v=1751981552"},{"product_id":"kusina-vol-2-whats-cooking-in-the-philippines","title":"Kusina II: What's Cooking in the Philippines","description":"\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47439940747556,"sku":"PB-10071","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/1_4d6dfd4f-8176-432f-a787-c8e81426e07b.jpg?v=1751981520"},{"product_id":"the-compleat-filipino","title":"The Compleat Filipino","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMa. Concepcion \"Conchitina\" Sevilla Bernardo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehas been credited with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehaving been instrumental in propagating and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eperfecting the subject of Personality Develop\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ement. She established The Karilagan Finishing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSchool, first finishing school accredited and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erecognized by the Department of Education, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCulture and Sports. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHer first book, Making Yourself Over into \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ea Compleat Woman, was part of her thesis. She \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehas a Master of Arts in Education from the Far \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEastern University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe was a director and the Senior \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVice-President for Marketing at the Pacific Plaza \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTowers-Metro Pacific, and a consultant for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhilippine Airlines. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe conducted seminars and workshops \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efor private and government establishments on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCustomer Relations, Personality Development, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand Social Graces. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe is Editor of All About Elan, a monthly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecolored supplement of the Philippine Daily \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInquirer which she conceptualized. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis former Vice-Mayor of Makati also \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eworked as Cultural Attaché at the Philippine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConsulate in Barcelona, Spain. She speaks \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTagalog, English, Spanish and French fluently. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShe is married to Joseph Delano \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBernardo and they have three children.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467773362468,"sku":"PB-10201","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/15_35ebde3d-599d-4148-91a9-00fc99195e3d.jpg?v=1751981517"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-the-philippines-from-indios-bravos-to-filipinos","title":"A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Philippines is a nation in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, complicated, and multilayered past. From ancient Malay settlements to Spanish colonization, the American occupation and beyond, A History of the Philippines recasts various Philippine narratives with an eye for the layers of colonial and post-colonial history that have created this diverse and fascinating population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA History of the Philippines begins with the pre-Westernized Philippines in the 16th century and continues through the 1899 Philippine-American War, the nation's relationship with the United States' controlling presence, culminating with its independence in 1946 and two ongoing insurgencies, one Islamic and one Communist. Now featuring a new afterword on the tragic destruction of Typhoon Haiyan, this illuminating portrait of the modern Filipino lays bare the multicultural, multiracial society of contemporary times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467828969764,"sku":"PB-10204","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/38_9bb3b886-ab44-430e-a5cb-e6a535fb7175.jpg?v=1751981511"},{"product_id":"state-and-society-in-the-philippines","title":"State and Society in the Philippines","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eState and Society in the Philippines engages the dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaborations between state leaders and social forces. It examines the long history of institutional state weakness in the Philippines and the efforts made to overcome the state's structural fragility and strengthen its bond with society. It answers these difficult questions by focusing on how the state has shaped and been shaped by its interaction with social forces, especially in the rituals of popular mobilization that have produced surprising and diverse results.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467869700388,"sku":"PB-10284","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/47_079dfb2e-134b-47b5-adb7-8b4e323aaf56.jpg?v=1751981507"},{"product_id":"babaylan-sing-back","title":"Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBabaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edepicts the embodied voices of a number of Philippine ritual specialists \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epopularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto have perished during colonial times, or to survive on the margins in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe present-day. They are either persecuted as witches and purveyors of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esuperstition, or valorized as symbols of gender equality and anticolonial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eresistance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and in the Philippine diaspora, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrace Nono's deep engagement with the song and speech of a number \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof living ritual specialists demonstrates Native historical agency in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e500th anniversary of the contact between the people of the Philippine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIslands and the European colonizers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrace Nono is an ethnomusicologist and interdisciplinary scholar. She \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis also a singer of Philippine oral chants, and the founder of the Tao \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFoundation for Culture and Arts, a Philippine non-profit organization \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ededicated to cultural revitalization.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47665908810020,"sku":"PB-10213","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/111.jpg?v=1751981490"},{"product_id":"baybayin","title":"Baybayin by Anji Milcah B. Resurreccion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePinatibay ng Librong ito ang aking paniniwala sa kakayahan ng mga \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekabataan na mag-ambag sa paghubog ng pambansong kamalayan. Pinalutang \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eng may-akda ang kahalagahan ng mapanuring pagtanaw sa angking kulturang \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekayamanan at kakaibang kakayahan. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePatunay ito sa karunungang ipinamana ng ating mga ninuno. Bata man o\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e may ilang taong gulang na, kaya nating aralin ang sinaunang paraan ng \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epagsulat at pagbasa na siyang nagpapakinang sa \"identity\" ng ating lahi. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNawa'y mahikayat ang maraming kababayan na matutong mag-Baybayin. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKunin natin ang pagkakataong ito na ipamalas sa buong daigdig ng may taglay \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etayong sariling kaalaman. Mabuhay tayong lahat!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47743978438948,"sku":"PB-10217","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/107_4029ed6c-ca73-4bce-a46e-aa4c969616e8.jpg?v=1751981479"},{"product_id":"a-visual-guide-to-philippine-folklore","title":"A Visual Guide to Philippine Folklore by Beatriz Alegre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Visual Guide to Philippine Folklore is a colorfully illustrated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecollection of the Philippines' richest folkloric traditions, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efeaturing tales, epics, and legends populated by eerie spirits, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epowerful deities, and uncanny creatures. The book explores \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe cultural and historical contexts of Philippine folklore \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand how it has been passed on through generations. Beliefs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand customs that are still practiced in modern Philippine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esociety-including superstitious rituals, the use of anting-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eanting (amulets), and the continued reverence for traditional \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehealers--are also detailed. A Visual Guide to Philippine Folklore \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einvites readers to an enchanting and imaginative journey into \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emythological landscapes conjured by Filipino communities \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eancient and modern-striving to make sense of the mysteries \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the world around them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeatriz C. Alegre hails from Northern Samar. \u003cspan\u003eHer passion for fostering a love for reading \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eamong the young and promoting creativity \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough books has fueled her involvement in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebook publishing for over 25 years. She hopes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat A Visual Guide to Philippine Folklore will \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eignite in the minds of young readers a keen \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einterest in the rich traditions, customs, beliefs, and oral \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enarratives of the Filipino people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47805887512868,"sku":"PB-10221","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/A_Visual_Guide_to_Philippine_Folklore_by_Beatriz_C._Alegre.jpg?v=1764550973"},{"product_id":"plural-entanglements-philippine-studies","title":"Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies, Edited by Dada Docot, Stephen Acabado, and Clement Camposano","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe field of Philippine Studies has been re-energized through its participation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein global discussions on decolonization and through its attempts at rethinking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe place of stakeholder engagement in scholarship. These conversations have \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebeen shaped mainly by early- and mid-career scholars who are striving to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eproduce knowledge in more inclusive and innovative ways. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlural Entanglements emphasizes the diverse foundations of scholarship and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaccentuates the need for scholars to look beyond Manila, figuratively and quite \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eliterally. This approach is a necessary corrective to the colonial era-influenced \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ediscourse of Philippine culture and history, which is currently dominant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand actively propagated through various iterations of the school curricula \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand even through popular culture. This dominant discourse continues to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emarginalize and impoverish communities across the country--rural, urban, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Indigenous. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a response, this collection includes contributions that foreground the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emargins, look into the historical and contemporary participation of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilippines in the global economy, critically assess theoretical canons on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilippine culture and history, and address urgent themes such as natural and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehuman-made disasters and social justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47887428845860,"sku":"PB-10228","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/Plural_Entanglements_Philippine_Studies.jpg?v=1778373178"},{"product_id":"saints-of-resistance-devotion-in-the-philippines-under-early-spanish-rule-christina-lee","title":"Saints of Resistance: Devotion in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule by Christina H. Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEighty percent of Filipinos (about 80 million people) identify with the Catholic faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVisitors to the Philippines might find it surprising that images of Catholic saints, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe Child Christ, and the Virgin Mary can be seen in all kinds of public and private \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003espaces throughout this Asian country, such as in restaurants, shopping malls, pasted to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewalls, painted on buses, and, of course, home altars. Many of these saints bear Spanish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enames and their legends almost always date to the period of Spanish colonialism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSaints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule explores why, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003espite of their fraught history with Spanish colonialism (which ended in 1898), Filipinos \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehave staunchly held on to the faith in their saints. This is the first scholarly study to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efocus on the dynamic life of saints and their devotees in the Spanish Philippines, from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe sixteenth through the early part of the eighteenth century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book offers an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein-depth analysis of the origins and development of the beliefs and rituals surrounding \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esome of the most popular saints in the Philippines, namely, Santo Niño de Cebu, Our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLady of Caysasay, Our Lady of La Naval, and Our Lady of Antipolo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristina H. Lee \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erecovers the voices of colonized Philippine subjects as well as those of Spaniards who, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethrough the veneration of miraculous saints, projected and relieved their grievances, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eanxieties, and histories of communal suffering. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on critical readings of primary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esources, the book traces how individuals and their communities often refashioned \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eiconographic devotions to the Holy Child and to the Virgin Mary by introducing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enon-Catholic elements derived from pre-Hispanic, animistic, and Chinese traditions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUltimately, the book reveals how Philippine natives, Chinese migrants, and Spaniards \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereshaped the imported devotions as expressions of dissidence, resistance, and survival.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47893623275812,"sku":"PB-10230","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/105_48bcc268-bb89-4214-8392-8c8026d6376b.jpg?v=1751981461"},{"product_id":"3-baybayin-studies-revised-edition","title":"3 Baybayin Studies: Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Ramón Guillermo's enthusiasm has kindled the interest of the other \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escholars (Myfel Joseph D. Paluga, Maricor Soriano, and Vernon R. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTotanes) who have contributed to this volume. The general \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eapproach of this invisible faculty contrasts greatly with the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eamateurish interpretations tinged with superstitions that have \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eplagued Baybáyin studies in the course of the twentieth century, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand may have contributed to the general disregard for this field \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eamong the majority of Filipino intellectuals. Now that the Baybáyin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas been recognized as one of the deep components of the Filipino \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eidentity, it is a good thing that serious scholars should have \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eendeavored to proceed to a scientifically and historically correct \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epresentation of what should be known about it.\" -- Jean-Paul Potet, from the Foreword\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47944472002852,"sku":"PB-10233","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/125_db801a01-b5f7-47c1-a650-52a2c23f3971.jpg?v=1751981457"},{"product_id":"typhoons-climate-society-and-history-in-the-philippines","title":"Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines by James Francis Warren","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTyphoons\u003c\/em\u003e offers an unprecedented and extensive view of the complex interplay of typhoons and Philippine society. Its sweeping coverage spans the earliest contact with the West, the development of the trans-Pacific trade, the incursions of the Catholic religion, integration into the Modern World system, and the extraordinary influence of centuries of extreme weather — all brought together in remarkable scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy placing typhoons and associated hazards at the center of his historical focus, James Francis Warren presents a bold and innovative interpretation of Philippine pasts and futures, dissolving the distinction between natural hazards and natural disasters. The result is a unique, long-term perspective on Philippine environmental and socioeconomic history through the lens of a recurrent extreme weather event — one that extends all the way to the present and lays down the critical challenges confronting us in a globally warmer and more unpredictable future. An essential reference for those interested in multidisciplinary approaches to environmental sciences, social sciences, disaster risk management, and sustainable development, \u003cem\u003eTyphoons\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishing, panoramic, and persuasive study of inestimable value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Francis Warren is emeritus professor of modern Southeast Asian history at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He is an award-winning historian who has published numerous monographs, journal articles, and book chapters. His books include The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State (eds. 1981, 2007, and 2021); Iranun and Balangingi: Globalisation, Maritime Raiding, and the Birth of Ethnicity (2002); Pirates, Prostitutes, and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethno and Social History of Southeast Asia (2008); Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880- 1940 (1986 and 2003); and Ah Ku and Karayuki San: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870-1940 (1993 and 2003). He lives in Perth, with his wife, Carol, an anthropologist, and daughter, Kristin, a wildlife, zoological, and conservation medicine specialist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48283244331300,"sku":"PB-10241","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/Typhoons_by_James_Francis_Warren.jpg?v=1778372018"},{"product_id":"height-matters","title":"Height Matters: The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is about height: what it means and how it affects young people in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe Philippines. What does being tall-or being short-signify in a country \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhere the average height is s'4\" (163 cm) for males and s' (151.4 cm) for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efemales, and where over 30 percent of children under five years of age are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estunted? Where do notions about height come from and how do they figure \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein various domains of Philippine society, from basketball games to beauty \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epageants, from education to employment, from public health to pop \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eculture? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeight Matters attends to these questions by presenting an \"ethnography \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof human stature\" based on the author's fieldwork in Puerto Princesa, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePalawan. Some economic historians have proposed the existence of a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"height premium\" or an inherent advantage to being tall, which draws \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eparallels with popular understandings, as in the expression \"lba na ang \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ematangkad\" (It's different if you're tall) in a 1970s TV commercial. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecentral proposition of this anthropological account, however, is that height \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a relational attribute that can be best understood as a form of \"body \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecapital\" that derives its value from the many figurations of height in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeveryday life in the country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48340702101796,"sku":"PB-10244","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/64_009a0a34-10b0-4ff9-9f1c-f6fcd4f57383.jpg?v=1751981430"},{"product_id":"himlayan-pantiyon-kampo-santo-sementeryo-exploring-philippine-cemeteries","title":"Himlayan, Pantiyon, Kampo Santo, Sementeryo: Exploring Philippine Cemeteries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHimlayan, Pantiyon, Kampo Santo, Sementeryo: Exploring Philippine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCemeteries contains five articles that look into how different individuals \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare treated at death. The authors explore representations of non-adults, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eethnicity, patriots, and boy scouts in various cemeteries in Manila and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eneighboring provinces during the different colonial periods in Philippine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehistory. The book features infant and child burials in Manila North Cemetery \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand La Loma Catholic Cemetery: Chinese-Filipinos in the Manila Chinese \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCemetery; the memorials and shrines built for Philippine Revolutionaries \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewho fought against Spain and the United States; the Boy Scouts who died en \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eroute to the 11h World Scout Jamboree in Greece in 1963, and the military \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eofficers and soldiers, and national artists and scientists at the Libingan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eng mga Bayani. The book advocates that we should take a second look at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecemeteries not just as places for the dead but as active heritage sites where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe living immortalize the dead through burial adornments. Mausoleums and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egravestones also expose individual and collective histories of the deceased. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe polities of where and how to bury the dead is a struggle. It is an internal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eemotional struggle of a mother who lost a child. It is a war of ideologies on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edefining who and what is a patriot. It is a clash between families and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egovernment on owning the dead. And it is a conflict between a ruling class \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the inferior merchant class divided by ethnicity and religion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe viability of cemeteries as heritage spaces is also examined in this book. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMausoleums exhibit architectural styles that rival other forms of built \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eheritage, Burial structures are symbolic markers of the history of a people \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein a specific time and space. As such, Philippine cemeteries are reflections \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof our past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48712771993892,"sku":"PB-10254","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/126_ba41cc27-e676-433b-b2ba-f1d548d8f952.jpg?v=1751981415"},{"product_id":"cultural-dictionary-for-filipinos-second-edition","title":"Cultural Dictionary for Filipinos (2nd Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe U.P. Leadership, Citizenship and Democracy Program \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe University of the Philippines, in June 1992, established the Leadership, Citizenship, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDemocracy Program (LCDP) in the College of Public Administration, in recognition of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eimportance of research, teaching, training and dissemination of knowledge on the issues, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eproblems and processes of leadership and citizenship in a society seeking to be democratic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprosperous, just and humane. The Program provides fellowships, space and facilities for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eselected leaders in government, business, the professions and academia to enable them to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein reflection, writing and interaction with other leaders in many fields of endeavor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eengage \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt also initiates and carries out interdisciplinary and inter-institutional research on issues, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eproblems and development of leadership, citizenship and democracy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"yj6qo\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThe University of the Philippines Cultural Dictionary for Filipinos is the only dictionary of its kind in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilippines. As such, it is a useful reference and guide for students, teachers, parents, supervisors, executives \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand leaders in different fields. We therefore believe it belongs in every home and organization, just like good \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edictionaries in Filipino and English.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48818797936932,"sku":"PB-10256","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/137_2223656a-2af4-410c-b9f2-16feb868f5d6.jpg?v=1751981408"},{"product_id":"courtship-and-marriage-practices-among-philippine-tribes","title":"Courtship and Marriage Practices Among Philippine Tribes","description":"","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48995561668900,"sku":"PB-20231","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/39_0a7d3677-7573-464d-89a6-3ff27bfd0a65.jpg?v=1754352072"},{"product_id":"the-kalingas","title":"The Kalingas: Their Institutions and Custom Law","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the book: \u003c\/strong\u003eCovers the Kalingas, the household \u0026amp; kinship group, their custom, law, law of economic relations. Regional units, institutions and custom law, responsibility, procedure, punishment, torts \u0026amp; crimes. With essays also on husband \u0026amp; wife, the Dagdagas, servants, slaves, wealth, ownership of water, landlord \u0026amp; tenant, property rites, interest, debts and loans, seizure, animal ownership, the Pangats, go-betweens, peace pacts, retaliations \u0026amp; indemnities,  and peacemaking. A scholarly and copious resource.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe Kaliangas, a non-literate nationality in the Philippines, appear here in full-length portrait, painted by an expert in Philippine culture and law. This volume is more than the ethnography of a tribe. Its description of the Kalingas’ attempts to master their feudalistic tendencies, their killings and counter-killings between kinship groups, presents a stage in the evolution of society and government in general.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48995577364772,"sku":"PB-20390","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/61_422bfc57-64c7-4474-ba34-a91cde7ab881.jpg?v=1754352047"},{"product_id":"life-in-old-parian","title":"Life In Old Parian","description":"","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48995611738404,"sku":"PB-20572","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/21_98fa2247-7afb-44b6-ac97-68404768f7cf.jpg?v=1754352037"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/collections\/Culture_and_Society_Cover.jpg?v=1749389694","url":"https:\/\/www.philippinebooks.com\/collections\/culture-society.oembed?page=9","provider":"Philippine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}