{"title":"The Pioneering Alatco Bus Company: Mobility in Early–Twentieth-Century Bicol","authors":"Leo Paulo I. Imperial","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Founded on 6 July 1914, the Albert Louis Ammen Transportation Company (Alatco) was the first bus company in the Philippines and the pioneer in Bicol’s motorized public transport system. Improved road conditions in Bicol in the early twentieth century were advantageous for the rapid development of motorized inland transportation. It was in this context that enterprising American serviceman Albert Louis Ammen realized the necessity of a reliable public transport business to assist the movement of people and goods. This article focuses on the Alatco’s evolution and emphasizes how its operation transformed various aspects of life in the Bicol Region.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"42 1","pages":"591 - 626"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84288180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Circulating Ideas in an Intraimperial Network: From Mercantilism to Liberalism through Basque Enlightenment Thought in the Philippines","authors":"Aitor Anduaga","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The transition from mercantilism to economic liberalism through the Enlightenment thread offers a rare opportunity to analyze the networked circulation of ideas in the Spanish Empire. This article focuses on the circulation of knowledge by analyzing the influence of Basque Enlightenment thought in the Philippines through the lens of intraimperial networks and hybrid communities. This influence first came through the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country, which partly inspired the program of the Manila Economic Society, and then through the Royal Company of the Philippines, from which several Basque trading companies and a spring of free-trade proposals emerged. The Basque maritime trading diaspora favored the circulation of reformist economic ideas in the Philippines from the 1770s to the 1820s.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"1 1","pages":"561 - 590"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90231212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila’s Alternative Film Culture ed. by Jasmine Nadua Trice (review)","authors":"Cherish Aileen A. Brillon","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"658 populated by Ilocanos, it should not be described as an “Ilocano province of Pangasinan” (96). Rather, it should have been simply stated that the person came from the Ilocano-dominated part of Pangasinan. Pulsiguan (118) should be Palsiguan. After finishing the book, the reader still has several questions left unanswered. Of all the places where the Augustinians did their ministry, why were they able to organize the zanjeras in Ilocos but not in others? Was there an existing indigenous communal irrigation practice in Ilocos prior to the coming of the Spaniards? To this second question, it appears that Rivera sides with the theory that the Augustinian priests introduced Spanish irrigation models in Ilocos. In Andrés Carro’s Vocabulario ilocoespañol (Establecimiento Tipo-Litográfico de M. Pérez, Hijo, 1888), however, paayás is an Ilocano term that means zanja de regadío or irrigation ditch. There are other indigenous terms related to farming and irrigation. It would be interesting to compare zanjeras with the irrigation customs of the Ifugao and the Bontoc. More important, though, would be a comparison with the Tinguian, the nearest kin of the Ilocanos, whose rice customs were documented by Fay-Cooper Cole and whose ethnology was studied earlier by Isabelo de los Reyes.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"10 1","pages":"658 - 662"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83713256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Contribution to the History of the Jesuit Press in Manila through a Study of Graphic Art (1622–1768)","authors":"Carla Gamalinda","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This research note compiles insights on the history of the Jesuit press in Manila drawn from the study of its graphic features. Using an inventory of the assets of the Jesuit press produced during the 1768 expulsion, I found hints on the process of printing in eighteenth-century Manila. I gathered more information by cataloging the graphic elements used by the Jesuit press during this period. This study of graphic art and the processes involved in creating it reveals patterns and irregularities that either support previous claims about the Jesuit press or prompt its reinvestigation.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"83 1","pages":"627 - 654"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85976828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manila, City of Islands: A Social and Historical Inquiry into the Built Forms and Urban Experience of an Archipelagic Megacity by Edwin Wise (review)","authors":"K. Saguin","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"662 of distribution. The book’s contribution also lies in its use of interdisciplinarity, applying rhetoric, urban studies, geography, and anthropology to explain why alternative cinema remains limited in its circulation. Lastly, to those who lived through the period covered by Trice’s study, the book is a written record of how these initiatives to promote independent cinema started and ended, which makes one think of how ephemeral cultural artifacts and practices can be. But if anything, the book’s most poignant yet most grounded point may be Trice’s assertion that the formation of alternative film culture and speculative publics will remain an asymptotic process—never being fully finished but always within reach.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"134 1","pages":"662 - 665"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85531005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Father of Filipino Austerity: Central Bank Governor Miguel Cuaderno and Anti-inflationary Ideology in the 1950s","authors":"Lisandro E. Claudio","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Most economic analysts have argued that the failed currency policy of the Philippine Central Bank during the 1950s prevented the development of a robust export sector. This article examines the economic thinking that led to the Central Bank’s policies through a reassessment of the ideas of its first governor, Miguel Cuaderno. Reading Cuaderno’s memoirs and speeches from the period shows that anti-inflationary beliefs consistent with twentieth-century ideas of austerity informed his thinking. The article hopes to contribute to the literature on “macroeconomic policy regimes” by examining how they are produced and reified through language.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"341 1","pages":"527 - 560"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82961454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning without Reading Noli me tángere: The Rizal Law in Two Public High Schools","authors":"Filomeno V. Aguilar, M. Macapagal, C. Benitez","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The first to examine ethnographically the implementation of the 1956 Rizal Law, which mandated the inclusion of José Rizal's works in school curricula in the Philippines, this case study investigates the teaching of Noli me tángere at Grade 9 in two public high schools in Rizal Province. The data indicate that most students do not read the entire novel even in abridged form. But although many of them read summaries or assigned chapters only, they can articulate their learnings of life lessons and political values. This paradox is explained through classroom dynamics characterized by orality and formulaic learning across teacher–student generations.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"48 1","pages":"325 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86910652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being a Discoverer or Being Discovered? Curriculum Evaluation of Development-Oriented Waldorf Education in the Philippines","authors":"Thijs Jan van Schie","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Waldorf education is known for its outspoken ideas on personal development. The recent globalization of Waldorf education raises questions about how it is adapted locally. This article addresses Eurocentric elements in the curriculum on the basis of a case study of history education in Grade 7 at a Philippine Waldorf school. Here, the students' development is mirrored in stories about the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. But can Filipino students identify with Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan? Are they the discoverers or the discovered in these stories? These are precarious questions in the Philippines's hybrid cultural context.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"18 1","pages":"361 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79510386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bible in the Iglesia Filipina Independiente","authors":"P. Smit","doi":"10.1353/phs.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) has developed its own position regarding the interpretation of the Bible. This article charts the evolution of the IFI's hermeneutical position throughout the three main phases of its historical and theological development, drawing on official and representative statements made by the church and its leadership. It shows how the development of the biblical hermeneutics of the IFI parallels the historical trajectory of the church at large, from its inception under the leadership of Gregorio Aglipay (and Isabelo de los Reyes Sr.), to the centennial celebration of its proclamation in 2002.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"113 1","pages":"457 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80201975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}