The UP Office of the VP for Academic Affairs has featured our work on pan-Philippine (and Austronesian) epics and what we call a "logic of breathing". Salamat @nath2 for the tip-off π§π«‘
Read more in the links below β¬οΈ and the article itself is accessible via OpenAthens! π
Paper accepted! π₯³π₯³π₯³
One point (of many) we're excited to make here is how to build up from William Henry Scott's approach of looking through the "cracks in the parchment curtain."
(Here we are at Scotty's grave in Sagada).
Ang pagpapangalan ay mahalaga! Bakit Pantaron Manobo at hindi ang official state ethnonym na Ata Manobo? Sinimulan namin itong ipaliwanag dito π At may soon-to-come π€ kaming papel ni @hal_odetta kung saan sinundan namin kung saan nga ba galing ang katagang "Ata"...
The Austronesian Research Seminar is starting off again!
Meranaw Torogan: A Symbol of Power with Labi Haji Sarip Riwarung (Researcher and Chairman of the Folklore Division, Mamitua Saber Research Center, Mindanao State University)
Join us on Tuesday, details here β¬οΈ
How it started (Saturday morning):
Me randomly listening to Collective Soul
How it's going (Sunday evening):
@hal_odetta: The pivot where quantitative relation transitions to enduring being, that is Shine.