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So Far, Yet Home? The Impact of Colonization and Globalization on the Philippine Family
This paper looks at the changing role of the Filipino family from precapitalist to present times. After exploring the issue of how the precolonial and precapitalist family changed in response to colonization, it focuses on the question of how the underlying structure of the modern family has changed as a result of the impact of global capitalism. The paper ends with a brief reflection on some of the implications of changed family relations, structures, and roles for the moral fiber of the family and economy
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More on Modes of Production: A Synthesis of Some Debates Contextualized for the Philippines
A look into modes of production is one of many possible entry points for the study of society and economy. It was not well developed by Marx who only alluded to it here and there in his works. He introduced the idea in Capital. (1977, Vols. 1, 1974 II, and III), A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy (1970), and in Pre- Capitalist Economic Formations (1964). While one can read this concept in his other texts, for example in German Ideology (1970), it is from the previously mentioned ones that others, most notably Althusser and Balibar in their Reading Capital (1970), have drawn the term to explicate it as a tool for social analysis. As a consequence, it is in secondary sources that the concept of a mode of production has been elaborated upon and refined. Marx remains a source of inspiration to proponents of the mode of production approach who refer to him in constructing their concept. I used these secondary sources in explicating the concept of a mode of production. Note, however, that the term has been subjected to varied, if not contrary, definitions. All of them cannot be reviewed here, and so, I do not dwell long on what are considered to be outdated usages of the term that have been formerly criticized. This paper is limited to a review of interpretations and applications of the concept which have been deemed most congenial to anthropology and sociology in the Philippines
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Cebu\u27s Basic Christian Community Movement\u27s Alternative Plan for Sustainable Development
Based on selected indicators, Cebu has recently become one of the most booming growth centers of the Philippines. However, these indicators are mere gauges of economic growth, not development. Development pertains to a social and structural process for achieving ecological sustainability and human well being within a community as a whole. In Cebu, there may have been an economic boom which favors selected few businessmen but, for most Cebuanos, there was none to speak of. Studies show that the so-called Ceboom masks widespread environmental destruction caused by real estate developers. The Medium-Term Cebu Development Plan (MTCDP) has neglected to develop basic social services and agriculture in order to alleviate poverty in the province. An alternative to this is the broader vision for sustainable development of the Basic Christian Community called Basic Ecclesiastical Community (BEC) movement, involving a paradigm shift. BEG aims to develop a post-capitalist society which is based on ecologically sustainable modes of production through the gradual reorganization of communities on the peripheries. Through their training programs and community organizing, the BEG movement in Cebu seeks to establish a self-sustaining economy based on local agriculture and supported by local industry. The author concluded that, although Cebu is in the forefront of development, true sustainable development can be attained by adopting the BECâs model
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A maid in servitude: Filipino domestic workers in the Middle East
This paper presents Filipino economic history as a way to provide a brief background to the events that precipitated one Filipino womanâs migration to the Middle East. Her story is not rare but shares in common patterns with the stories of many other female contract workers, especially domestic workers. It chronicles government policies and business practices that profit from their remittances. It is being retold here so that the invisible world of female contract workers and, more often than not, the poor conditions under which they live and labour, might be better understood
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TSSA: Southwestern Anthropology Association Conference: Legibility Practice/Prospect
A modified model of legibility vis-a-vis salon session was adapted for use my class, immediately, after attending the conference. Also, I took two students from my Winter Quarter class (Anth 301, Anthropological Theory) to the conference held that Spring Quarter 2019. They presented their research papers completed in Anth 301. In two of my Spring Quarter courses, I applied the modified model, by pairing student partners who were asked in sequential order to kick off the discussion, which then opened up to engage all students into the participatory process. The idea of running discussions like mini salon sessions (salon sessions kick off an idea, quite briefly, and then are opened up for wider discussion, recognizing that every participant has something to offer) worked well. Every single student in the class had a turn to bring something to the table and all of the students joined in the follow-up conversations. Their homework prompts also were simplified to help them to better focus on what they were reading, so in addition to being responsible for specific sections, they also had to think about the reading as a whole. Prompts were open ended such as what did you take away from the reading, what is one question that you have, and what are you curious to learn more about. Overall, the salon session and encouraging the students to be clear and legible in explaining concepts and ideas was interesting and engaged them, interactively, into course discussions
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A PostscriptâChanging Configurations of Gender and Family in the Philippines: Does Liberation Theology Provide a Cultural Framework for the Study of the Family?
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Creatively Enhance Teaching through Sustained Study of the Issue of Legibility and Why It Matters
How do we make anthropology theories, past and present, âlegibleâ (easier to understand) through in-class collaboration and discussions of homework readings and related films? How do we better understand what it means to make something decipherable be it new multi-species ethnographies, past and present economic systems in different and specific political/ and historical and national contexts and in relation to the global world, past and present; or, man-made and climate change related disasters versus natural disasters and the differential impact of such disasters on poor communities versus the better off. How can the instructor better engage every single student in the classroom to learn how to individually and collaboratively decipher, with clarity, social and cultural anthropology theories and concepts that change and evolve in the contexts of the histories in which they emerged? How can she better help students to learn to apply the legibility tool to the pivotal historical moment in which we are living now, where traditional power structures are being challenged? This course is focused on learning how to make complex and difficult to understand concepts legible, decipherable, and easy to understand
Indigenous Liberation Theology and Spirituality: Looking to the Past for Answers in the Present
Pope Francisâs Laudato siâ: On the Care of Our Common Home offers a framework for dealing with poverty, ecological degradation, and climate change in the Philippines. His interconnected and holistic ecological spirituality shares some commonalities with indigenous spirituality where the earth is a gift from God to be taken care ofânot taken advantage of or taken for granted. In this paper, we explore how this integrated approach of indigenous spirituality and liberation theology offers some long-term solutions to the problems of poverty and climate change. Taking the position of being politically engaged in the world accords well with indigenous spirituality, this political engagement is thereby defined by loving and taking care of all of Godâs creation. Diametrically opposing this political engagement to political opportunismâattempts to maintain power and influence without regard for ethical or political principlesâviews human and non-human sentient animals and all living life forms as interconnected and sacred. A brief explanation of climate change in the Philippine context suggests the idea of rekindling a love for âearth housesââa term earlier coined by the Egyptian architect, Hassan Fathy (1900â1989). Fathy envisioned earth homes as an affordable way to house the poor, heal, and give new life to the natural environment
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