Donna J. Amoroso was born and raised in New Jersey.

She received her BA degree in international

affairs from Lafayette College before finishing her PhD at Cornell University, USA. She taught in Ohio and
Tokyo, was editor of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, ran the academic writing programme of the
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, and co-wrote State and Society in the Philippines
with her husband, Patricio Abinales. She passed away in January 2011.

Books

Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya

State and Society in the Philippines (State & Society in East Asia

Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya

In this original and perceptive study, Donna J. Amoroso argues that the Malay elites' preeminent
position after the Second World War had much to do with how British colonialism reshaped old idioms
and rituals – helping to (re)invent a tradition. In doing so she illuminates the ways that traditionalism
reordered the Malay political world, the nature of the state and the political economy of leadership. In
the postwar era, traditionalism began to play a new role: it became a weapon which the Malay
aristocracy employed to resist British plans for a Malayan Union and to neutralise the challenge coming
groups representing a more radical, democratic perspective and even hijacking their themes.

Leading this conservative struggle was Dato Onn bin Jaafar, who not only successfully helped shape
Malay opposition to the Malayan Union but was also instrumental in the creation of the United Malays
National Organisation (UMNO) that eventually came to personify an 'acceptable Malay nationalism'.
Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya is an important
contribution to the history of colonial Malaya and, more generally, to the history of ideas in late colonial
societies.

State and Society in the Philippines (State & Society in East Asia

This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines’ ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of
state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts
and collaboration between government leaders and social forces. Patricio N. Abinales and Donna J.
Amoroso examine the long history of institutional weakness in the Philippines and the varied strategies
the state has employed to overcome its structural fragility and strengthen its bond with society. The
authors argue that this process reflects the country’s recurring dilemma: on the one hand is the state’s
persistent inability to provide essential services, guarantee peace and order, and foster economic
development; on the other is the Filipinos’ equally enduring suspicions of a strong state. To many
citizens, this powerfully evokes the repression of the 1970s and the 1980s that polarized society and
cost thousands of lives in repression and resistance and billions of dollars in corruption, setting the
nation back years in economic development and profoundly undermining trust in government. The
book’s historical sweep starts with the polities of the pre-colonial era and continues through the first
year of Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial presidency.
Vicente L. Rafael is a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Washington, Seattle. He
received his B.A. in history and philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in
history at Cornell University in 1984. Prior to teaching at the University of Washington, Rafael taught at
the University of California, San Diego and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Currently, he sits on
advisory boards of Cultural Anthropology, Public Culture, and positions.

Books

Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam

Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation

Contracting colonialism

The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte

The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of
Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued
the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins
of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their strangeness.
Rafael examines the workings of the foreign in the Filipinos’ fascination with Castilian, the language of
the Spanish colonizers. In Castilian, Filipino nationalists saw the possibility of arriving at a lingua franca
with which to overcome linguistic, regional, and class differences. Yet they were also keenly aware of
the social limits and political hazards of this linguistic fantasy.

Through close readings of nationalist newspapers and novels, the vernacular theater, and accounts of
the 1896 revolution, Rafael traces the deep ambivalence with which Filipinos came to regard Castilian.
Their belief in the potency of Castilian meant that colonial subjects came in contact with a recurring
foreignness within their own language and society. Rafael shows how they sought to tap into this
uncanny power, seeing in it both the promise of nationhood and a menace to its realization. He thus
sheds light on the paradox of nationhood arising from the risks of translation. Repeatedly opening
borders to the arrival of something other and new, translation compels the nation to host foreign
presences to which it invariably finds itself held hostage.

White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

Examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora
in the 1990s. Treats, in a condensed and concise manner, clusters of historical detail and reflections that
do not easily fit into a larger whole. Offers a view of nationalism as an unstable production, revealing
how, under what circumstances, and with what effects the concept of the nation has been produced
and deployed in the Philippines.

John N. Schumacher (born June 17, 1927 – May 14, 2014) was a Filipino Jesuit historian and educator
known for his work exploring the Catholic clergy's role in the 1896 Philippine revolution in Revolutionary
Clergy: The Filipino Clergy and the Nationalist Movement, 1850–1903, first published in 1981.
Schumacher was born in Buffalo, New York. He became a naturalized Filipino citizen in 1977.
Schumacher served as editor-in-chief of the Philippine Studies journal from 1975 to 1978.

Notable Works

The Propaganda Movement, 1880–1895:

The Creation of a Filipino Consciousness, the Making of the Revolution (1973)

Making of a Nation: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Nationalism (1991)

Father Jose Burgos: A Documentary History (1999)

Growth and Decline: Essays on Philippine Church History (2009).

Growth and Decline: Essays on Philippine Church History

The essays gathered into this volume deal primarily with the inner development of Catholicism in the
Philippines. Nonetheless, they inevitably also speak of the development of the Filipino people. For
whatever one’s religious beliefs may be, and whatever evaluation one may make of the role of
Catholicism in the development of Filipino people, it remains a historical and cultural reality that has
given shape to the nation and that makes it unique among the other cultures and histories of Southeast
Asia.— From the Introduction.

Father Jose Burgos: A Documentary History (with Spanish documents and their translation)

Reproduces some of Burgos’s writings, the nationalist intellectual heritage from which Rizal and Marcelo
H. del Pilar drew. Aims to let the reader understand fully political developments of the second half of
the nineteenth century. Presents documents that evince the origins and developments of the dispute
between regular clergy and secular clergy—which gradually took on racial, and later, nationalist,
overtones—in the Philippine church. Comes with an extensive historical introduction.

James Francis Warren is an ethnohistorian of modern Southeast Asia with a particular interest in the
period from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. For the past Forty years a passion for a
forgotten past of ordinary people who have stood outside history and the recovery of a whole set of
cultural-ecological relations have been a central preoccupation running through his research, writing
and teaching. This approach to writing Southeast Asian History in an ethnographic grain has all been
context-sensitive with a strong cultural-ecological orientation. The themes identified and addressed his
books, whether focussing on state formation, slavery, ethnicity, migration and urbanisation,
prostitution, and suicide are all trans-historical and trans-cultural. His current research on the
environment –human nexus concerning the impact of cyclonic storms on the Philippines over five
centuries, extends my methodology and research to the history of environmental change in Southeast
Asia and the Indian Ocean world. This interdisciplinary approach in diversity of method and objects of
analyses in the writing and interpretation of Southeast Asian History has enabled me to render a portrait
of Southeast Asians living in a complexly textured world of exceptional natural forces, large power
constellations, intimate social relations and deep moral dilemmas.

Education

He obtained his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History from the Australian National University in 1975, after
having served in the United States Peace Corps in Sabah ,East Malaysia from 1967-69. He moved from
the ANU to Murdoch University in 1976 and have held positions at the Australian National University ,
Yale University, and as a Professorial Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University, and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is a fellow of the Asia
Research Centre, Murdoch University, and a Research Associate of the Indian Ocean World Centre, Mc
Gill University and have been awarded grants by the Social Science Research Council and the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Australia Research Council, the Canadian Social Science and
Humanities Research Council and the United States Library of Congress.

Books

Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870—1940

Ah Ku and Karayuki-san

Prostitution in Singapore, 1870—1940

October 2019

Iranun and Balangingi: Globalization, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity

January 2003

Rickshaw Coolie: A People’s History of Singapore, 1880-1940 (1986)

Rickshaw Coolie

A People’s History of Singapore, 1880-1940

October 2019

The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation
of a Southeast Asian Maritime State (1981)

The Sulu Zone: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a
Southeast Asian Maritime State, 1768-1898 (Second Edition)
January 2007

The North Borneo Chartered Company’s Administration of the Bajau 1878-1909 (1971)

At the Edge of Southeast History (1987)

The Sulu Zone, the World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination (1998)

Pirates ,Prostitutes and Pullers Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia (2008)

Awards

The Grant Goodman Prize in Historical Studies – 2013

The Centenary Medal of Australia 2003 – For Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in the
Study of Ethnohistory

Fellow Australian Academy of Humanities 1996 – for distinguished contributions to research in the
Humanities- Excerpt – Citation for election as a Fellow – 1996

Iranun and Balangingi: Globalization, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity January 2003

The aim of this book is to explore ethnic, cultural and material changes in the transformative history(s)
of oceans and seas, commodities and populations, mariners and ships, and raiders and refugees in
Southeast Asia, with particular reference to the Sulu-Mindanao region, or the "Sulu Zone". Examining
the profound changes that were taking place in the Sulu-Mindanao region and elsewhere at the end of
the eighteenth century, this book, the companion volume to The Sulu Zone published in 1981,
establishes an ethnohistorical framework for understanding the emerging inter-connected patterns of
global commerce, long distance maritime trading and the formation and maintenance of ethnic identity.

It also provides a new conceptual framework for understanding the problem of ethnic self-definition and
political processes and conflicts in the recent history of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. Iranun
and Balangingi seeks to probe these themes through an inter-disciplinary approach, using archival
sources and literature, as well as period testimony, interviews, diaries, and fieldwork observations from
sites primarily located in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia.

The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the
Transformation of a Southeast Asian

"First published in 1981, "The Sulu Zone" has become a classic in the field of Southeast Asian History.
The book deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical "border zone" centred on the Sulu
and Celebes Seas between 1768 and 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the West. The
author examines the social and cultural forces generated within the Sulu Sultanate by the China trade,
namely the advent of organized, long distance maritime slave raiding and the assimilation of captives on
a hitherto unprecedented scale into a traditional Malayo-Muslim social system. How entangled
commodities, trajectories of tastes, and patterns of consumption and desire that span continents linked
to slavery and slave raiding, the manipulation of diverse ethnic groups, the meaning and constitution of
""culture, "" and state formation? James Warren responds to this question by reconstructing the social,
economic, and political relationships of diverse peoples in a multi-ethnic zone of which the Sulu
Sultanate was the centre, and by problematizing important categories like ""piracy"", ""slavery"",
""culture"", ""ethnicity"", and the ""state"". His work analyzes the dynamics of the last autonomous
Malayo-Muslim maritime state over a long historical period and describes its stunning response to the
world capitalist economy and the rapid ""forward movement"" of colonialism and modernity. It also
shows how the changing world of global cultural flows and economic interactions caused by cross-
cultural trade and European dominance affected men and women who were forest dwellers,
highlanders, and slaves, people who worked in everyday jobs as fishers, raiders, divers or traders. Often
neglected by historians, the response of these members of society are a crucial part of the history of
Southeast Asia."

José Arcilla Solero ( Philippines , September 17, 1925) is a Spanish-Filipino Jesuit, writer and professor.
He currently teaches history at the Ateneo de Manila University , [ 1 ] being considered an authority on
Philippine history. He is one of the recipients of the prestigious Zobel Prize for Filipino Literature in
Spanish. He is a member of the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language .

Books

1998. Philippine indigenous culture in the second half of the 19th century according to the Jesuits

1999. An Introduction to Philippine History

2006. The Origin of the Philippine Political

Introduction to Philippine History

Introduction to Philippine History gives an introductory overview of how the Philippines grew into a
nation and how it achieved its independence. Conceived as "a story to be read, and not a calendar to be
memorized," this concise narrative of Philippine history serves as a handy guide for understanding the
important highlights of the nation's development. Jose S. Arcilla, S.J., is a member of the department of
history at the Ateneo de Manila University and is at present also the archivist of the Philippine Province
of the Society of Jesus. He finished graduate studies in the United States and in Spain. Farther Arcilla,
who has authored "Aspects of Wester Medieval Culture", has published in professioal reviews both in
the Philippines and abroad. He is the Philippine coordinator for the editorial staff of the "International
Jesuit Encyclopedia" being published by the Institute of Jesuit History (Rome).

John F. Hurley, S.J.: Wartime Superior in the Philippines

Father Hurley shares his experiences from the first days of World War II until the end of hostilities. He
saw and endured the pain brought by war, but lived through optimistically, firsthand and vicariously,
through the different personalities—Americans, Filipinos, Japanese, and others—whom he knew and got
in contact with.
Nerissa S. Balce is a cultural studies scholar. Her research focuses on race, gender, state violence and
popular culture in the U.S. and the Philippines. She is co-curator of the online art project, Dark Lens /
Lente ng Karimlan: The Filipino Camera in Duterte’s Republic, an online exhibition of Philippine
photographs of injustice and loss featuring commissioned poems and captions by 40 scholars and artists
from the Philippines and North America. Dark Lens is currently on view at SUNY Stony Brook's Center for
the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice and Policy website. The Dark Lens co-curators are Pia Arboleda,
Director of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Center for Philippine Studies, and writer Francine
Marquez of Manila Art Allies. The editors of Dark Lens are Sarita Echavez See and Clare Counihan from
the Center of Art and Thought.

Balce is the author of the book, Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American
Archive (University of Michigan Press 2016 and Ateneo de Manila University Press 2017), winner of the
2018 Best Book award in Cultural Studies from the Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American
Studies. The book was also a finalist for the best book in the social sciences for the 2018 Philippine
National Book Awards. She was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. She received a B.A. in Literature
and an M.A. in Philippine Studies from De La Salle University, Manila. She worked as a journalist in
Manila, writing articles on Philippine literature, politics, culture and the arts. She took doctoral studies at
the University of California-Berkeley on a Fulbright scholarship, where she received a Ph.D. in Ethnic
Studies. Before joining SUNY Stony Brook’s Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, she
received a postdoc at the University of Oregon’s Department of Ethnic Studies and taught at the
University of Massachusetts - Amherst’s Comparative Literature Program. At Stony Brook, she teaches
graduate and undergraduate courses on Asian American literature and popular culture. Her essays have
appeared in the Asian American Writers' Workshop blog, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Journal of Asian
American Studies, Social Text, Peace Review, Hitting Critical Mass and in anthologies such as "Positively
No Filipinos Allowed": Building Communities and Discourse (Temple UP 2006) and Resource Guide to
Asian American Literature (Modern Language Association 2001).

Publications

Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive (University of Michigan
Press 2016 and Ateneo de Manila University Press 2017).

Articles

"Exposing EJKs and the State: A Collaborative Review of Dark Lens/ Lente ng Karimlan: The Filipino
Camera in Duterte's Republic." Co-written with media scholar Sarita Echavez See. Verge: Studies in
Global Asias 6:1, U Minnesota Press, Spring 2020. 2-6.

"Laughter Against the State: On Humor, Postcolonial Satire and Asian American Short Fiction." Journal of
Asian American Studies, Johns Hopkins U Press, February 2016. 47-73.

"The Filipina’s Breast: Savagery, Docility and the Erotics of the American Empire.” Social Text, Duke U
Press, June 2006. 89-110.
"American Insecurity and Radical Filipino Community Politics.” Co-authored with Robyn Rodriguez
(Sociology Department, Rutgers University). Peace Review, Taylor & Francis, 16:2 June 2004. 131-140.

Book chapters

"Filipino Bodies, Lynching and the Language of Empire." In Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building
Communities and Discourse edited by Antonio Tiongson, Ed Gutierrez and Rick Gutierrez. Philadelphia:
Temple U Press, 2006. 43-60.

"Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn." In Resource Guide to Asian American Literature. Ed. Sau-ling Cynthia
Wong and Stephen H. Sumida. New York: Modern Language Association, 2001. 54-65.

"Filipino American Literature." Co-authored with Jean Vengua Gier. In New Immigrant Literatures in the
United States, A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage. Ed. Alpana Sharma Knippling.
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. 67-89.

Book reviews

Solicited review for American Historical Review. Rebecca Tinio McKenna's American Imperial Pastoral:
The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines (U Chicago 2017). Volume 124, February 2019. 256-
257.

"Citizenship and the Immigrant Body." Solicited review for Women's Studies Quarterly. June 2010. 327-
334.

On-line essays

"Fighting the Aswang: Seeing state terror and resistance in Alyx Ayn Arumpac's new documentary on
Duterte's extrajudicial killings." Co-authored with Gary Devilles (Ateneo de Manila University) and
Ferdinand m. Lopez (U of Toronto). Published in the "Open City" page of the Asian American Writers'
Workshop blog. July 9, 2020

"Face: Necropolitics and the US Imperial Photography Complex." Reprint of book chapter for the on-line
exhibit, Empire's Eyes: Colonial Stereographs of the Philippines. In the multi-media blog Center for Art
and Thought. UC Riverside. March-April 2018.

"The Meanings of Marrow." In the multi-media blog Center for Art and Thought, "Filipino Food Worlds"
issue. UC Riverside. May 1, 2014. http://centerforartandthought.org/work/project/food-worlds

"Ten Questions for [Filipino American novelist] Gina Apostol." In the Manila cultural blog SPOT.ph [Spot
Philippines]. Manila, Philippines. May 1, 2014. http://www.spot.ph/peopleparties/56272/ten-questions-
for-filipino-novelist-gina-apostol

Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the
Philippine-American War (1899-1902).

During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in
the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the
human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes, and more efficient print technologies for mass
media.

Rather than focusing on canonical American authors who wrote at the time of U.S. imperialism, this
book examines abjects texts--images of naked savages, corpses, clothed native elites, and uniformed
American soldiers--as well as bodies of writing that document the goodwill and violence of American
expansion in the Philippine colony. Contributing to the fields of American studies, Asian American
studies, and gender studies, the book analyzes the actual archive of the Philippine-American War and
how the racialization and sexualization of the Filipino colonial native have always been part of the
cultures of American and U.S. imperialism. By focusing on the Filipino native as an abject body of the
American imperial imaginary, this study offers a historical materialist optic for reading the cultures of
Filipino America.

Resil Buagas Mojares (born September 4, 1943) is a Filipino historian and critic of Philippine literature
best known as for his books on Philippine history. He is acclaimed by various writers and critics as the
Visayan Titan of Letters, due to his immense contribution to Visayan literature.[1] He was recognized in
2018 as a National Artist of the Philippines for Literature - a conferment which represents the Philippine
state's highest recognition for artists.

Early Life and Education

Mojares was born to parents who were public school teachers on September 4, 1943 in Polanco,
Zamboanga del Norte.

Mojares has a bachelor's degree in English, a master's degree in Literature and postgraduate studies all
at the University of San Carlos, as well as a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of the Philippines
Diliman.

Notable Works

Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A Generic Study of the Novel Until 1940 (Quezon City, UP Press,
1983; second ed. 1998)

The Man Who Would Be President: Serging Osmeña and Philippine Politics (Cebu: Maria Cacao, 1986)

Waiting for Mariang Makiling: Essays on Philippine Cultural History (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila
University Press, 2002)

Theater in Society, Society in Theater: Social History of a Cebuano Village, 1840-1940 (Quezon City:
Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1985)
The War Against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899-1906 (Quezon City: Ateneo
de Manila University Press, 1999)

House of Memory: Essays (Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1997)

Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes and the Production of
Modern Knowledge (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006)

Isabelo’s Archive (Metro Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2013).

Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes and the Production of
Modern Knowledge

This is a richly textured portrait of the generation that created the self-consciousness of the Filipino
nation.

War against the Americans: Resistance and Collaboration in Cebu, 1899–1906

A definitive account of the American Occupation of Cebu province. Brings together a large mass of
original data not only on battles and skirmishes, but also on such topics as the finances of the resistance,
collaboration, and factionalism among Cebuanos. Tells of brigandage and the background and motives
of the personalities involved in the events. Carries the reader forward, beyond the war itself, to a
reflection of the making of local history.

Professor Thomas Michael McKenna is an interdisciplinary scholar in the history of philosophy, religion,
and the arts. He began his career as a musician. He is also a poet and has edited the short run journal
Holler: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, now part of the permanent collection of the West Virginia Culture
Center in Charleston, West Virginia. As a professor, Dr. McKenna says his goal is to help students
understand that the answers to life’s big questions vary, but that it is important to understand everyone
else’s answers to better grasp the rich diversity of our world our place in it. Whether it be Language,
Literature, History, Philosophy, or Religion, the Department of Humanities will prepare you for success in
any field you choose by teaching you how to listen more carefully, to read with greater understanding,
and how to write more effectively, all while acquiring a better understanding of the language, literature,
history, philosophy and religion of the wider world. “We live in a rich and diverse world. The more we
know about the people in it, what they think about it, and why they think so, the better we’ll do…no
matter what we choose to do for a living.”

Education

Ph.D., M.A., Yale University (2004,2003)

M.A., St. Bonaventure University (1991)

B.A., University of Delaware (1989)

Research
Dr. Mc Kenna’a research interests include the thought of Bonaventure, a 13th century Parisian
philosopher and theologian, and Jacoponi of Todi, a fourteenth century Italian poet. He is also the
publisher and editor of Holler: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.

Moro Warrior: A Philippine Chieftain, an American Schoolmaster, and the Untold Story of the Most
Remarkable Resistance Fighters of the Pacific War

Moro Warrior tells the remarkable true story of the Philippine Muslim (Moro) resistance fighters of
World War II—the most successful and least known guerrillas of the Pacific Theater. It is the story of
Mohammad Adil, a sword-wielding warrior chieftain commissioned as a junior officer in Douglas
MacArthur's guerrilla army while still a teenager. Confident in his secret protective powers learned from
a Sufi master, Adil roamed the highland rainforests with a price on his head, attacking Japanese
outposts, surviving ambushes, and gaining a reputation as a man who could not be killed.

It is also the story of the colonial official Edward Kuder, foster father to Mohammad Adil and a rare
American friend to the Moros, who sheltered him during the Japanese occupation. Kuder was the sole
chronicler of the early Moro resistance—an armed opposition so vigorous that the soldiers of the
Imperial Japanese Army found themselves outfought time and again by Moro irregulars.

When the soldiers of the Empire of Japan invaded their homeland, the Moros, sometimes with swords
as their only weapons, bravely fought on alone after the rapid American surrender of the Philippines. At
the urging of Edward Kuder, they later joined the American-led guerrilla movement that emerged in
1943 and served with distinction, but their exceptional contribution to the defeat of the Japanese
occupiers and the liberation of the Philippines has never been properly acknowledged. Here, based on
the vivid recollections of Mohammad Adil and the wartime writings of Edward Kuder, the extraordinary
achievements and sacrifices of the Moro freedom fighters of Mindanao finally receive their full due.

Muslim rulers and rebels : everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines

In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna
challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions
about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background of more
than four hundred years of political relations among indigenous Muslim rulers, their subjects, and
external powers seeking the subjugation of Philippine Muslims. He also explores the motivations of the
ordinary men and women who fight in armed separatist struggles and investigates the formation of
nationalist identities

Jim Richardson studies Philippine History, Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, and Philippine Studies.
He is an independent scholar whose research focuses on Philippine nationalism and radicalism in the
19th and 20th centuries. His publications include Roots of Dependency: Political and Economic
Revolution in 19th Century Philippines (co-authored with Jonathan Fast); The Philippines (World
Bibliographical Series); Komunista: The Genesis of the Philippine Communist Party, 1902-1935; and The
Light of Liberty: Documents and Studies on the Katipunan, 1892-1897. He lives in London.

Books

Classic Car Restorer's Handbook: Restoration Tips and Techniques for Owners and Restorers of Classic
and Collectible Automobiles

High School: U.S.A. (A Black starbook)

The Classic Chevy Truck Handbook HP 1534

Sinsemilla: Marijuana Flowers

The United States Air Force Academy (American College Series)

Time on Target!: From Donalsonville to Pont-A-Mousson

How to Build a Small Block Chevy for the Street

Komunista: The Genesis of the Philippine Communist Party, 1902-1935

Komunista presents a most comprehensive and detailed history of the beginnings of what eventually
became the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas. It traces the roots of the movement to the labor federation
formed from among gremios or guilds, neighborhood associations, and trade or shop associations of
printers, tabaqueros, tailors, sculptors, seamen, and cooks. It provides portraits of the movement's
leadership as it evolved through the years, notably citing personalities such as Isabelo de los Reyes, Juan
Feleo, and Crisanto Evangelista.

The Light of Liberty: Documents and Studies on the Katipunan, 1892-1897

Most of the 73 Katipunan documents in this volume were seized by the Guardia Civil in Manila in 1896-
1897 and locked away for decades in the Spanish military archives. Transcribed and published here for
the first time are two versions of the Katipunan’s founding statutes of 1892; more than twenty records
of the Supreme Council; initiation rituals; draft contributions to KALAYAAN, the KKK newspaper; and
letters of Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto. Also included here are a few better known documents,
such as Bonifacio’s “Decalogue,” Jacinto’s “Kartilya” the Acta de Tejeros, and the Naik Military
Agreement. The original Tagalog texts are in most cases preceded by brief introductions and followed
by English translations or paraphrases. Supplementary essays discuss the Katipunan’sleadership and
structure in the city and province of Manila, and the contested historiography of the Katipunan. This
volume provides a wealth of fresh insights into the character, ideals and travails of the secret society
that launched the struggle for liberty.

Luis H. Francia is a Filipino American poet, playwright, journalist, and nonfiction writer. His memoir, Eye
of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, won both the 2002 PEN Open Book[1] and the 2002 Asian American
Literary Awards.
Early Life and Education

Francia was born in Manila, Philippines. He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with an AB
in Humanities, cum laude[2] and moved to New York in the 1970s. As a budding poet in New York, he
studied with José García Villa,[3] the National Artist of the Philippines for literature, at The New School
and later at his private workshop in Greenwich Village. Francia wrote the introduction to the 2008
Penguin Classics edition of Villa’s poetry, Doveglion: Collected Poems.

He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University, City University of Hong Kong, Ateneo De
Manila University, and Hunter College. Currently, he writes an online column "The Artist Abroad" for the
Philippine Daily Inquirer and teaches at New York University.

He lives in Queens with his wife, Dr. Midori Yamamura, an assistant professor of art history at
Kingsborough Community College (CUNY) and a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art.

Major works

Poetry

Her Beauty Likes Me Well, with David Friedman, Petrarch Press, 1975

The Arctic Archipelago and other poems, Ateneo de Manila University, 1992 ISBN 9715500536

Museum of Absences, Meritage Press, 2004 ISBN 9715424155

The Beauty of Ghosts, Ateneo De Manila University Press, 2010 ISBN 9715506089

Tattered Boat, University of the Philippines Press, 2014 ISBN 9715427200

Poetry Anthology Inclusions (partial)

Alfrredo Navarro Salanga and Esther Pacheco, eds. Versus: Philippine Protest Poetry. Manila: Ateneo de
Manila University Press, 1986.

Gemino Abad and Alfred Yuson, eds. The Best of Caracoa. Manila: Philippine Literary Arts Council, 1991.

José García Villa, ed. The New Doveglion Book of Philippine Poetry. Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1993.

Nick Carbó, ed. Returning a Borrowed Tongue. Minneapolis: Coffeehouse Press, 1996. ISBN 1566890438

Gemino Abad, ed. A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, ’60s to the ’90s. Quezon
City: University of the Philippines Press, 1999. ISBN 9715422160

Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga, eds. Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. ISBN 0813529662
Ramón C. Sunico, Alfred A. Yuson, Alvin Pang, and Aaron Lee, eds. Love Gathers All: The Philippines-
Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry. Manila/Singapore: Anvil Publishing/Ethos Books, 2002. ISBN
9810451008

Nick Carbó and Eileen Tabios, eds. Pinoy Poetics. San Francisco: Meritage Press, 2004. ISBN 0970917937

Edwin Lozada, ed. Field of Mirrors: Anthology of Philippine-American Writers. San Francisco: Philippine
American Writers and Artists, Inc. 2008. ISBN 0976331632

Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar, eds. Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry
from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. New York: Norton, 2008. ISBN 0393332381

Steve Fellner and Phil Young, eds. Love Rise Up: Poems of Social Justice, Protest & Hope. Hopkins,
Minnesota: Benu Press, 2012. ISBN 0984462961

Rajeev S. Patke, Isabela Banzon, Philip Holden, Lily Rose Tope, eds. An Anthology of English Writing from
Southeast Asia. Singapore: National Library Board, 2014. ISBN 9810877617

Gemino Abad and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, eds. The Achieve of, the Mastery: Filipino Poetry and
Verse from English, Mid-'90s to 2016. 2 vols. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2018. ISBN
978971542871-2

Theater/Performance

The Beauty of Ghosts. Poetry narratives performed by professional actors and poets. Topaz Arts, New
York, 2007 world premiere and 2014 revival.[14]

The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz. World premiere of full-length play, Bindlestiff Theater, San
Francisco, 2012.[15]

Black Henry. Dramatic reading of full-length play. New York: Diverse City Theater Company, 2007; Topaz
Arts, 2014; Philippines: Cebu City, 2016.

“Fruity Text.” Poetry for performance, commissioned by choreographer Paz Tanjuatquio. Brooklyn: Long
Island University, 1998; Manhattan: The Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, 1999.

Nonfiction

Memories of Overdevelopment: Reviews and Essays of Two Decades, Anvil Pub, 1998 ISBN 9712707563

Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, MUAE Publishing, 2001 ISBN 1885030312

A History of the Philippines: from Indios Bravos to Filipinos, The Overlook Press, 2010 ISBN 1590202856

RE: Recollections, Reviews, Reflections, University of the Philippines Press, 2015 ISBN 9789715427821

Anthologies
Co-editor with Indran Amirthanayagam, Kimiko Hahn, and Peter Kwong, "New Asia Issue: Selected
writings by Asian-American authors," The Portable Lower East Side, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1990

Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, Rutgers
University Press, 1993 ISBN 0813519993

Co-editor with Eric Gamalinda, Flippin’: Filipinos on America, Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1996
ISBN 1889876011

Co-editor with Angel Velasco Shaw, Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of
an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999, NYU Press, 2002 ISBN 0814797903

History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos

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. A 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. Luis H. Francia creates an illuminating portrait that offers the reader valuable insights into
the heart and soul of the modern Filipino, laying bare the multicultural, multiracial society of
contemporary times.

Passport Philippines: Your Pocket Guide to Filipino Business, Customs & Etiquette

Comprehensive guide to the culture, etiquette and communication of the Philippines.

Carlos Lozada Quirino (14 January 1910 – 20 May 1999) was a Philippine biographer and historian. Not
only known for his works on biographies and history but also on varied subjects such as the old maps of
the Philippines and also the culinary legacy of the country.

Early Life

Carlos Quirino is a nephew of Philippine president Elpidio Quirino.[2] He is a famous Filipino historian
and biographer at his time, receiving his journalism degree in 1931 from the University of Wisconsin at
Madison.[3] Known for his early biography of Jose Rizal entitled "The Great Malayan" (1940),he also
wrote several works in relation with the Philippine history and biographies of President Manuel Quezon
and the painter Damian Domingo.

Quirino joined the Philippine Army and became second lieutenant before the outbreak of World War II.
During the Japanese occupation, he was forced to join the Bataan Death March but escaped and joined
the underground resistance.

Under President Diosdado Macapagal, Quirino became director of the National Library. He was also
became the first director of the Ayala Museum in 1970 due to his historical expertise.
In 1997 he was recognised as a National Artist of the Philippines for Historical Literature.

Books

Man of Destiny (1935)

The Great Malayan (1940)

Magsaysay and the Philippines (1958)

Philippine Cartography (1959)

Damian Domingo: First Eminent Filipino Painter (1961)

History of the Philippine Sugar Industry (1974)

Filipinos at War (1981)

Amang, the Life and Times of Eulogio Rodriguez, Sr. (1983)

The Great Malayan

First penned for the 1938 Commonwealth Biography contest, Carlos Quirino's The Great Malayan is a
sweeping and majestic life story of the Philippine national patriot. José Rizal. Epic in scope, brimming
with drama and insight, the novel is a masterful study of Rizal's brief but brilliant life, from Kalamba to
Bagumbayan. In his book Mr. Quirino paints the many faces of Rizal in stark and colorful hues against
the tumultuous backdrop of a nation in search of its identity and ultimately, its freedom.'

Man of Destiny

A timely biography of the president. Early life, as student & soldier, years of preparation for leadership,
the making of a hero, struggle with Osmena & Wood, the last duel with Osmena & triumphant
leadership reaffirmed with a biography of Aurora, the first Lady of the Land. A fascinating study. A scan
can be sent by email.

Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga y Díaz de Ilarraza ( Aguilar de Codés , June 16, 1760 - Manila , March 7,
1818 ) . Spanish priest and chronicler of the Philippines .

He studied at the Royal College of Augustinian Missionaries of Valladolid , where he professed in 1779 .
After a year's stay in Mexico , he embarked in Acapulco bound for the Philippines, arriving in Manila in
August 1786 , being sent to Batangas to study the Tagalog language . He was entrusted with the parishes
of Batangas , Tambobon , Hagonoy , Calumpit , Passig and Parañaque . In 1790 he is named Reader; two
years later Provincial Secretary, in 1806Prior Provincial and then Qualifier of the Holy Office .

He wrote Historia de las Islas Filipinas , published in Sampaloc in 1803 and translated into English by
John Maver in 1814 under the title An Historical View of the Philippine Islands and two editions were
made of it. Five copies of this work in Spanish have been located: one in the Library of the Naval
Museum of Madrid ; two at the Royal Academy of History ; one at the Diocesan Seminary-Faculty of
Theology of Vitoria and another at the University of Navarra . The work consists of 37 chapters and
covers from the discovery of the Philippines by Ferdinand Magellanuntil the entrance of Anda in Manila
when it was delivered by the English in 1764 .

He met Alessandro Malaspina when he arrived in Manila in 1792 at the head of a scientific expedition
that he was carrying out through the Empire's possessions in America, Asia and Oceania.

At the end of 1799 the lieutenant general of the Navy Ignacio María de Álava y Navarrete arrived with a
squadron to organize the naval forces of the Philippines. On this trip and the next in 1802 , he organized
expeditions throughout the archipelago. The fact that General Álava chose Fray Zúñiga as cicerone and
guide for both shows how much he was worth. As a result of these trips, between 1803 and 1805 he
wrote his great work De él Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas, or my travels through this country. Although
his intention must have been to publish it, for unknown reasons, perhaps due to censorship, since he
was quite critical of the behavior of the Colonial authorities whose chief was General Aguilar, the
manuscript remained unpublished until 1893 , when it was published by Retana. The work of Martínez
de Zúñiga in two volumes, consists of 29 chapters in which most of the islands of the archipelago are
described with great accuracy. It is a treatise on history, geography, ethnography, and geology that did
not exist until then, which is why it became a key work in the Philippine bibliography. Copies of
Statehood are found in many Spanish libraries.

He translated and printed Le Gentil's work under the title of Travels . He also wrote religious themes
such as the Historia and Novena de la Virgen del Buen Suceso . Undoubtedly, Fray Joaquin Martínez de
Zúñiga, OSA footwear Augustinian, is the most illustrious person born in Aguilar de Codés.

Books

An Historical View of the Philippine Islands Exhibiting Their Discovery, Population, Language,
Government, Manners, Customs, Productions and Commerce (Complete)

History of the Philippine Islands (Vol. 1&2): Their Discovery, Population, Language, Government,
Manners, Customs, Productions and Commerce (Complete Edition)

An Historical View of the Philippine Islands - Scholar's Choice Edition

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History of the Philippine Islands (Vol. 1&2): Their Discovery, Population, Language, Government,
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"History of the Philippine Islands" in 2 volumes is a chronicle written by the Spanish priest Joaquín
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Introduction

Philippine Islands:

Their Description – Productions and Commerce

Of the Inhabitants the Spaniards found in the Philippines – Their Language, Customs, and Religion
Comprising the Discovery of the Philippines

Of the Conquest of Zebu, and Discovery of the Route to New Spain

Of the complete Conquest of the Island of Zebu, and of some Towns in other Islands

Of the Conquest of Manila

Of the Government of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi

Of the Administration of Don Francisco La Sande

The Administration of Don Ronquillo de Penalosa

The Administration of Don Santiago de Vera

The Administration of Gomez Perez Dasmariñas…

Volume 2:

The Administration of Don Manuel de Leon

The Administration of Don Juan de Vargas

The Administration of Don Gabriel de Curuzalegui

The Administration of Don Fausto Cruzat y Gongora

The Administration of Don Domingo Zabalburu

The Administration of the Conde de Lizarraga

The Administration of Don Fernando Bustamante

The Administration of the Marquis de Torre Campo

The Administration of Don Fernando Valdes y Tamon

The Administration of Don Gaspar de la Torre

The Administration of the Marquis of Obando

The Administration of Don Pedro Manuel de Arandia

Of the Siege of Manila by the English, in the Year 1762

Of the Capture of Manila by the English, and its Capitulation

Of the Defence of the Islands by the Oidor Don Simon de Anda

Of the internal Commotions raised by the Indians and Chinese during the War

Of the Restoration of Manila by the English at the Peace, anno 1763

Rudy Buhay Rodil

Prof. Rodil, an author of several books on Mindanao and a peace advocate, was vice-chair of the
disbanded government peace panel that negotiated with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. He was also
part of past peace panels, including the panel that negotiated for the 1996 Final Peace Agreement with
the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).

Books

The Lumad and Moro of Mindanao by B. R Rodil

The minoritization of the indigenous communities of Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago by B. R Rodil

Kalinaw Mindanaw : the story of the GRP-MNLF peace process, 1975-1996 by B. R Rodil

A story of Mindanao and Sulu in question and answer

Kasaysayan ng mga pamayanan ng Mindanao at arkipelago ng Sulu, 1596-1898 by B. R Rodil

GRP-MILF peace process by B. R Rodil

Peace process between Government of the Republic of Phillipines and Moro Islamic Liberation Front

The Lumad and Moro of Mindanao

This document analyzes the two main indigenous groups in the south of the Philippines. It outlines the
history of the Lumad and Moro communities of Mindanao. The document discusses the effects of
development and business interests in the region, and their campaigns around land issues. The Lumad
and Moro accept the need to develop new sources of energy, but ask that their ancestral lands, and
their ability to manage them in line with sustainable development, be recognized and respected. Both
groups have maintained distinct and enduring identities in the face of Spanish and U.S. colonization, and
the policies of the predominantly Christian Philippines government. The Lumad retain traditional beliefs
and customs, while the Moro have embraced Islam. Inextricably linked is the 20 year old war of attrition
the government has waged with the Moro National Liberation Front. The booklet contains a glossary at
the beginning of the document. This is followed by a brief political history of the Philippines as
background. The second chapter is an introduction to the Lumad and Moro groups of Mindanao. The
next four chapters describe the Moro's struggle for self determination, Lumad objection to the
Philippine National Oil Company's plan to drill geothermal wells in the area of the dormant volcano of
Mount Apo, the Agus I hydroelectric plant, and prospects for problem resolution and peace. A chapter
on directions for the future is included. Includes 40 references, 3 maps, and 70 notes.
Francisco J. “Pancho” Lara Jr. is a Professor at the University of the Philippines, Diliman (UP), and Senior
Peace and Conflict Adviser to International Alert Philippines. He holds an undergraduate degree from
the University of the Philippines, and both an MSc (1997) and PhD (2011) in International Development
from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was research associate at the LSE
Crisis States Research Centre from 2008-2011; taught classes at the LSE Development Studies Institute;
and wrote on political economy issues in Indonesia and the Philippines for the LSE-IDEAS Emerging
Markets Bulletin from 2007-2009.

Professor Lara has written extensively on violent extremism and post-modern conflict and is co-editor of
a book on Mindanao’s shadow economies and their links to conflict and poverty entitled: Out of the
Shadows: Violent Conflict and the Real Economy of Mindanao that won the Philippines’ National Book
Award for the Social Sciences in 2016. He also authored the book, “Insurgents, Clans, and States:
Political Legitimacy and Resurgent Conflict in Muslim Mindanao” (2014) published by the Ateneo de
Manila University Press.

Out of the Shadows: Violent Conflict and the Real Economy of Mindanao

Informal and unregulated economic activities remain an important feature of Mindanao's economy.
Despite it's enduring presence, the informal economy has largely been overlooked in the analysis of
Mindanao's conflict dynamics. As a result, little is understood about the informal economy's impact on
armed violence, development, and governance. This study, which represents the first attempt to
incorporate the informal economy into the broader analysis of the region, argues that one cannot
comprehend Mindanao's political and economic challenges, let alone address them, unless these
shadow economies are scrutinized further.

Insurgents, Clans, and States: Political Legitimacy and Resurgent Conflict in Muslim Mindanao,
Philippines

Why were Moro insurgents unable to sustain their authority and legitimacy after gaining access to
political power? The study shows how rebels who surrendered their arms in exchange for formal
authority were unable to compete with powerful clans and local elites who provided basic security;
captured increasing amounts of internal revenue allotments under a regime of devolution; and, enabled
the spread of a shadow economy that boosted their power and allowed citizens to secure their
livelihoods with little taxation by the state. The implications are quite startling. Political legitimacy is not
necessarily about building a strong state, but about weakening it. Legitimacy may be less about building
peace, and more about demonstrating an ability to inflict violence. This books is useful to scholars
interested in other contexts of insurgency and rebellion, and in understanding the challenges that lie
behind sub-national state building and political settlements.

Laura Lee Junker is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago,
carries research in Southeast Asian archaeology. She has engaged in archaeological fieldwork in the
Philippines over a several decades career, focused on topics including pre-colonial Southeast Asian
political formations, population dynamics and urbanism, long-distance Indian Ocean-East Asian Seas
maritime trade, political economy, slavery and warfare, forager-farmer interactions, women's roles in
Southeast Asian societies, ritual feasting, social networks. Books include 'Raiding, Trading and Feasting:
The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms and 'Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia'.

Education

PhD, University of Michigan

MA, University of Pennsylvania

BA, University of Michigan

Books

1999 Junker, Laura Lee. Raiding, Trading and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [2000 co-publication Ateneo de Manila Press]

2003 Morrison, Kathleen and Laura Lee Junker, eds. Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia: Long-
Term Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS (selected for topical breadth):

2018 Junker, Laura Lee and Larissa Smith. Farmer and Forager Interactions in Southeast Asia. In
Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology, eds. Junko Habu, Peter Lape, John Olsen, and Jing
Zhichun. Springer Press.

2018 Junker, Laura. Conflictive Trade, Value and Power Relations in Maritime Trading Polities of the
10th-16thCenturies Philippines. In Trade and Civilization, eds. Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Lindkvist and
Janken Myrdal, pp. 413-452. Cambridge University Press.

2014 Junker, Laura Lee. Archaeology of Chiefdoms. International Encyclopedia of the Behavioral and
Social Sciences, pp. 376-382. London: Elsevier Press.

2013 Junker, Laura Lee. Konfliktreicher Handel entlang der Grenzen: Die Archäologie eines
vorkolonialen philippinischen Klanfürstentums (Conflictive Trade Along the Margins: The Archaeology of
a Pre-colonial Philippine Chiefdom). Antike Welte5(13): 1-11. [in German]

2010 Junker, Laura Lee and Lisa M. Niziolek. Food Preparation and Feasting in the Household and
Political Economy of Prehispanic Philippine Chiefdoms. In E. Klarich (ed.), Archaeological

Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms

As early as the first millennium A.D., the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge of a vast
network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders. Items procured through maritime trade
became key symbols of social prestige and political power for the Philippine chiefly elite. Raiding,
Trading, and Feasting presents the first comprehensive analysis of how participation in this trade related
to broader changes in the political economy of these Philippine island societies. By combining
archaeological evidence with historical sources, Laura Junker is able to offer a more nuanced
examination of the nature and evolution of Philippine maritime trading chiefdoms. Most importantly,
she demonstrates that it is the dynamic interplay between investment in the maritime luxury goods
trade and other evolving aspects of local political economies, rather than foreign contacts, that led to
the cyclical coalescence of larger and more complex chiefdoms at various times in Philippine history.

A broad spectrum of historical and ethnographic sources, ranging from tenth-century Chinese tributary
trade records to turn-of-the-century accounts of chiefly "feasts of merit," highlights both the diversity
and commonality in evolving chiefly economic strategies within the larger political landscape of the
archipelago. The political ascendance of individual polities, the emergence of more complex forms of
social ranking, and long-term changes in chiefly economies are materially documented through a
synthesis of archaeological research at sites dating from the Metal Age (late first millennium B.C.) to the
colonial period. The author draws on her archaeological fieldwork in the Tanjay River basin to
investigate the long-term dynamics of chiefly political economy in a single region.

Reaching beyond the Philippine archipelago, this study contributes to the larger anthropological debate
concerning ecological and cultural factors that shape political economy in chiefdoms and early states. It
attempts to address the question of why Philippine polities, like early historic kingdoms elsewhere in
Southeast Asia, have a segmentary political structure in which political leaders are dependent on
prestige goods exchanges, personal charisma, and ritual pageantry to maintain highly personalized
power bases.

Raiding, Trading, and Feasting is a volume of impressive scholarship and substantial scope unmatched in
the anthropological and historical literature. It will be welcomed by Pacific and Asian historians and
anthropologists and those interested in the theoretical issues of chiefdom

Patricio “Jojo” Abinales grew up on the northwestern side of the Philippine island of Mindanao. He
graduated with a degree in History from the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UP), and Ph.D. in
Government and Southeast Asian Studies from Cornell University. He taught at the Department of
Political Science at Ohio University from 1997 to 1999 before moving to the Center for Southeast Asian
Studies at Kyoto University in 2000. From 2010-2011, Jojo was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, where he did research on the political economy of
US economic assistance in Muslim Mindanao. In 2011 he joined the faculty of the Asian Studies Program
at UH-Manoa.

Apart from his academic work, Jojo also writes political commentaries and book reviews for two e-
magazines

Education

Ph.D. Government and Asian Studies, Cornell, 1997

MA Cornell University, Department of Government, 1991

BA History, University of the Philippines-Diliiman, 1978

Books:

The Revolution Falters: The Left in Philippine Politics after 1986 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian
Institute, Columbia University)

The Revolution Falters: The Left in Philippine

State and Society in the Philippines (State & Society in East Asia)

Modern Philippines (Understanding Modern Nations)

State and Society in the Philippines (State & Society East Asia)

Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State

The Joys of Dislocation : Mindanao, Nation and Region

The US and the War on Terror in the Philippines

The Revoluiton Falters: The Left in Philllippine Politics After 1986.

Orthodoxy And History in the Muslim-Mindanao Narrative

Dislocating Nation-States (12) (Kyoto Area Studies on Asia)

Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State

The Joys of Dislocation : Mindanao, Nation and Region

Southern Mindanao became the battleground of two major rebellions in the 1970s: one sought to create
a separate Muslim state, and the other--a communist insurgency--aspired to overthrow the Philippine
state. Standard explanations of these rebellions point to the explosive combination of historic ethnic
disputes, massive demographic changes accompanying the closure of the frontier, rising class
inequalities, the entry of transnational capital, and the militarization of southern Mindanao.

While not denying explanatory value to these arguments, this book rejects ethnicity and political
economy as the dominant causes. Making Mindanao argues that colonial construction of the state and
its subsequent transformation from the colonial to the post colonial period largely shaped Mindanao's
political landscape. The book thus focuses on how local power was determined by state formation and
how the state's ability to establish its authority was mediated by mutual accommodation between
strong men who controlled this frontier zone. It compares Cotabato and Davao to show the process of
state formation and the shaping of local power from the American period (1900-1941) to the eye of the
declaration of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos (1946-1972).

Modern Philippines (Understanding Modern Nations)

The Philippines is a nation that has experience being ruled by two separate colonial powers, home to a
people who have had strong attachments to democratic politics, with a culture that is a rich mix of
Chinese, Spanish, and American influences. What are important characteristics of contemporary daily
life and culture in the Philippines today?

This volume explores the geography, history, and society of this important island nation. Thematic
chapters examine topics such as government and politics, history, food, etiquette, education, gender,
marriage and sexuality, media and popular culture, music, art, and more. Each chapter opens with a
general overview of the topic and is followed by alphabetically arranged entries that home in even
closer on the topic. Sidebars and illustrations appear throughout the text, and appendixes cover a
glossary, facts and figures, holidays chart, and vignettes that paint a picture of a typical "Day in the Life"
of students and adults in the country. A bibliography rounds out the work. Modern Philippines is a
comprehensive volume on this leading Southeast Asia island nation.

Professor Faina C. Abaya-Ulindang of the History Department, Mindanao State University-Marawi

campus earned her Bachelor of Arts major in History(1972),Master of Arts in Asian Studies (1982) and
Doctor of Philosophy major in History (1996) at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City.

Her works largely deal with the social history of Mindanao, specifically migration and resettlement, war
in Mindanao, slavery, and women’s movements. Some of her writings are published in the Mindanao
Journal, MSU Graduate School Research Journal, Adhika Journal, NHI Kasaysayan Journal, NCCA Batis,
and ADHIKA & NHI Kasaysayan ng Bayan. She is presently involved with the writing of a textbook on
Philippine History 1 of the Mindanao State University and has finished (in limited circulation) a
sourcebook for Asian Civilization. She has also contributed to the ICAS newsletter an article on Chinese
slavery for the SAGE Encyclopedia on the Social Sciences.

She is currently a full time faculty of the History Department, and part time faculty of the Graduate
School MSU-Marawi. She was the former MSU-Marawi College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Coordinator for Research & Extension (1999-2007). She also served as a member of the NCCA Executive
Council for the National Committee on Historical Research(1998-2004;2007-10)and member of the
Board of Directors, Adhika ng Pilipinas (1998-2007).

Books

Tambayayong : ang bayanihan sa kasaysayan at kalinangang Pilipino by Pambansang Kumperensiya sa

Kasaysayan at Kalinangan

Abstracts : International Association of Historians of Asia, 13th Conference : September 5-9, 1994,
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan by IAHA Conference

RESETTLING THE HUKS IN THE LAND OF PROMISE: THE STORY OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPS
IN MINDANAO, 1950-1970

Tambayayong : ang bayanihan sa kasaysayan at kalinangang Pilipino by Pambansang Kumperensiya sa

Kasaysayan at Kalinangan

Philippines history and culture on mutual cooperation among Filipinos; papers of a conference
RESETTLING THE HUKS IN THE LAND OF PROMISE: THE STORY OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
CORPS IN MINDANAO, 1950-1970

IN LUZON, THE SECOND WORLD WAR LED TO THE FOUNDING OF A PESANT GUERRILLA FORCE, WHICH
WAS AT THE SAME TIME A UNITED FRONT OF MILITANT BUT INCHOATE PEASANT, LABOR, AND
PROFESSIONAL GROUPS. THIS WAS THE HUKBAALAHAP, OR HUKO NG BAYAN LABAN SA HAPON.
APPROPRIATING THE SLOGAN "LAND FOR THE LANDLESS," THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPS
IMPLEMENTED THE RESETTLEMENT OF THE HUKS AS A COUNTERINSURGENCY PROGRAM DURING THE
TIME OF PRESIDENT ELPIDIO QUIRINO AND PRESIDENT RAMON MAGSAYSAY. TO ENTICE THE HUKS TO
SURRENDER, IT PROMISED LAND TO THE LANDLESS HUKS IN THE PERIPHERAL AREAS OF LUZON AN D
MINDANAO. THE PROGRAM HELPED PROPEL THE RISE TO POWER OF THE "MAN OF THE MASSES,"
RAMON MAGSAYSAY. THIS BOOK PRESENT THE HISTORY OF EDCOR-- ITS CONCEPTION AND EVENTUAL
IMPLEMENTATION OF A RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE HUK SURRENDEREES IN MINDANAO, ITS
IMPLICATIONS ON MAGSAYSAY'S POLITICAL CAREER, AND ITS CONTINUED RELEVANCE TO THE
CONTEMPORARY UNREST IN MINDANAO.

Redemptorist Bro. Carlito “Karl” M Gaspar CSsR is Academic Dean of the Redemptorists’ St. Alphonsus
Theological and Mission Institute (SATMI) in Davao City and a professor of Anthropology at the Ateneo
de Davao University. Gaspar is author of several books, including “Desperately Seeking God’s Saving
Action: Yolanda Survivors’ Hope Beyond Heartbreaking Lamentations” and two books on Davao history
launched in December 2015. He writes two columns for MindaNews, one in English (A Sojourner’s
Views) and the other in Binisaya (Panaw-Lantaw)].

A Redemptorist brother, Bro. Karl is also a poet-songwriter, a professor, a prolific book writer especially
about the indigenous peoples and a political detainee at the height of the Marcos dictatorship and still
standing up for peace decades hence.

He is described most by his colleagues as a man with spirituality that embraces the poor and the
oppressed.

Born on June 8, 1947 in Davao City, Bro, Karl completed his doctoral degree in Philippine Studies from
the University of the Philippines (UP) in Quezon City in 2001. He is a post graduate of Master of Science
in Economics from Asian Social Institute in Manila in 1971, and a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in
Sociology from Ateneo de Davao University in 1967.

Bro. Karl grew up in the cities of Davao and Digos. His parents Salvador and Josefina Gaspar, who
originated from Capiz and Pangasinan, respectively, decided to transfer to Davao City just before the
outbreak of the World War II. He was arrested on September 23, 1972 and placed under house arrest
for three months. Then, he was arrested and imprisoned overnight in Lake Sebu in South Cotabato in
1974, detained for 22 months at Davao Metrodiscom stockade, acquitted by Regional Trial Court (RTC)
and released in February 1985. It was in 1985 when Karl joined the Congregation of the Most Holy
Redeemer (Redemptorist) as a Religious Brother. At present, Bro. Karl is also a lecturer, resource person,
evaluator and consultant of various educational institutions, church and non-governmental
organizations with several awards and citations.He considers travelling different parts of the world as his
greatest achievement, saying he had visited places which he only dreamed of when he was a young boy.

Books

•Manobo dreams in Arakan : a people’s struggle to keep their homeland

•The Lumad’s struggle in the face of globalization

•Mapagpakamalinawon : a reader for the Mindanawon peace advocate

•Pumipiglas : teyolohiya ng bayan = A preliminary sketch on the theology of struggle : from a cultural-
liturgical perspective

•Mystic-wanderers in the land of perpetual departure

•Readings on contemporary Mindanao church realities

•You are not forgotten! : symbols during martial law

•Behind the growing trees : an evaluation of the San Fernando Integrated Forestation Project

•The masses are Messiah : contemplating the Filipino soul

•Si Menda ug ang Bagani’ng gitahapan nga maong si Mangulayon

Manobo Dreams in Arakan: A People's Struggle to Keep Their Homeland (Mindanao Studies)

This is Karl Gaspar's latest book, a scholar-cum-activist's account of a familiar and recurring episode in
Mindanawon history, the struggle over the Lumad's ancestral lands. When the Manobos in Arakan
Valley had to confront the colonization of their lifeworld and the potential loss of their homeland to
logging concessionaires, a group of missionaries, community organizers and theater workers joined
forces with them to put up a truly collective resistance and in so doing affirmed their own cultural
identities.

To Be Poor And Obscure: The Spiritual Sojourn of a Mindanawon

This book is intended for students, teachers, and researchers who are interested in reading historical
books.

As one walks through these confessional essays, one encounters Karl and his world, where the personal,
political, and spiritual are interwoven into a Lumad design. Here he reveals himself as a true
anthropologist, a radical lover of humankind in the particular persons and communities he lives and
works with in his homeland, Mindanao.

Ronald K. Edgerton is professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Colorado. He

previously lived in the Philippines, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a Fulbright Scholar. He is
the author of People of the Middle Ground: A Century of Conflict and Accommodation in Central
Mindanao, 1880s–1980s.

Books

American Datu: John J. Pershing and Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Muslim Philippines, 1899-1913
(Battles and Campaigns)

People of the Middle Ground: A Century of Conflict and Central Mindanao, 1880-1980s

American Datu: John J. Pershing and Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Muslim Philippines, 1899-1913
(Battles and Campaigns)

"This fraught and fascinating biography of Pershing in the Philippines gives a glimpse of the voices of
Filipino Muslims as they engaged the governing American military officers. It also establishes Pershing's
tactics as the forerunner of today's counterinsurgency strategy associated with General David
Petraeus."―"―Patricio N. Abinales, coauthor of State and Society in the Philippines

"Few people understand the history of Mindanao under American rule as well as Edgerton does. He
deftly describes the conflict from both sides, explaining the Moros' perspective alongside US efforts to
gain control. Edgerton shows with fascinating detail how John Pershing's 'progressive' approach to
governing clashed with traditional, often racist calls for harsh military action and made way for modern
counterinsurgency tactics. This book draws you in; you do not want to put it down."―"―Kenton Clymer,
author of A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945

""Few people understand the history of Mindanao under American rule as well as Edgerton does. He
deftly describes the conflict from both sides, explaining the Moros' perspective alongside US efforts to
gain control. Edgerton shows with fascinating detail how John Pershing's 'progressive' approach to
governing clashed with traditional, often racist calls for harsh military action and made way for modern
counterinsurgency tactics. This book draws you in; you do not want to put it down."―"―Kenton Clymer,
author of A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945

""This fraught and fascinating biography of Pershing in the Philippines gives a glimpse of the voices of
Filipino Muslims as they engaged the governing American military officers. It also establishes Pershing's
tactics as the forerunner of today's counterinsurgency strategy associated with General David
Petraeus."―"―Patricio N. Abinales, coauthor of State and Society in the Philippines

People of the Middle Ground: A Century of Conflict and Central Mindanao, 1880-1980s

This book tells the story of people in central Mindanao who, over time, developed a masterful capacity
to borrow from the new without losing touch with the old, reimagining themselves not as willing
Western clones or stubborn tribal traditionalists, but as virtuosos at articulating between multiple ways
of being.
Its central question is: How did they negotiate the middle ground in a world of swirling change? In
answering that question, Dr. Edgerton provides a fascinating case study that will be invaluable to
scholars everywhere who seek to understand how people with little power manage to articulate a
changing sense of identity in the face of forces far more powerful than themselves.

José Rizal was born on June 19, 1861 to Francisco Rizal Mercado y Alejandro and Teodora Alonso
Realonda y Quintos in the town of Calamba in Laguna province. He had nine sisters and one brother. His
parents were leaseholders of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm held by the Dominicans. Both
their families had adopted the additional surnames of Rizal and Realonda in 1849, after Governor
General Narciso Clavería y Zaldúa decreed the adoption of Spanish surnames among the Filipinos for
census purposes (though they already had Spanish names).

Like many families in the Philippines, the Rizals were of mestizo origin. José's patrilineal lineage could be
traced to Fujian in China through his father's ancestor Lam-Co, a Hokkien Chinese merchant who
immigrated to the Philippines in the late 17th century. Lam-Co traveled to Manila from Xiamen, China,
possibly to avoid the famine or plague in his home district, and more probably to escape the Manchu
invasion during the Transition from Ming to Qing. He decided to stay in the islands as a farmer. In 1697,
to escape the bitter anti-Chinese prejudice that existed in the Philippines, he converted to Catholicism,
changed his name to Domingo Mercado and married the daughter of Chinese friend Augustin Chin-co.

On his mother's side, Rizal's ancestry included Chinese and Tagalog. His mother's lineage can be traced
to the affluent Florentina family of Chinese mestizo families originating in Baliuag, Bulacan. He also had
Spanish ancestry. Regina Ochoa, a grandmother of his mother, Teodora, had mixed Spanish, Chinese and
Tagalog blood. His maternal grandfather was a half Spanish engineer named Lorenzo Alberto Alonzo.

From an early age, José showed a precocious intellect. He learned the alphabet from his mother at 3,
and could read and write at age 5. Upon enrolling at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, he dropped the
last three names that made up his full name, on the advice of his brother, Paciano and the Mercado
family, thus rendering his name as "José Protasio Rizal". Of this, he later wrote: "My family never paid
much attention [to our second surname Rizal], but now I had to use it, thus giving me the appearance of
an illegitimate child!"This was to enable him to travel freely and disassociate him from his brother, who
had gained notoriety with earlier links to Filipino priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto
Zamora (popularly known as Gomburza), who had been accused and executed for treason.

Rizal's house in Calamba, Laguna

José, as "Rizal", soon distinguished himself in poetry writing contests, impressing his professors with his
facility with Castilian and other foreign languages, and later, in writing essays that were critical of the
Spanish historical accounts of the pre-colonial Philippine societies. By 1891, the year he finished his
second novel El filibusterismo, his second surname had become so well known that, as he writes to
another friend, "All my family now carry the name Rizal instead of Mercado because the name Rizal
means persecution! Good! I too want to join them and be worthy of this family name..."

Works and writings

Rizal wrote mostly in Spanish, the lingua franca of the Spanish East Indies, though some of his letters (for
example Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos) were written in Tagalog. His works have since been
translated into a number of languages including Tagalog and English.

Novels and essays

"El amor patrio", 1882 essay

"Toast to Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo", 1884 speech given at Restaurante Ingles, Madrid

Noli Me Tángere, 1887 novel (literally Latin for 'touch me not', from John 20:17)

Alin Mang Lahi ("Whate'er the Race"), a Kundiman attributed to Dr. José Rizal

"Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga-Malolos" (To the Young Women of Malolos), 1889 letter

Annotations to Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1889[66]

"Filipinas dentro de cien años" (The Philippines a Century Hence), 1889–90 essay

"Sobre la indolencia de los filipinos" (The Indolence of Filipinos), 1890 essay

"Como se gobiernan las Filipinas" (Governing the Philippine islands), 1890 essay

El filibusterismo, 1891 novel; sequel to Noli Me Tángere

Una visita del Señor a Filipinas, also known as Friars and Filipinos, 14-page unfinished novel written in
1889

Memorias de un Gallo, two-page unfinished satire[69]

Makamisa, unfinished Tagalog-language novel written in 1892

Poetry

"Felicitación" (1874/75)

"El embarque"[71] (The Embarkation, 1875)

"Por la educación recibe lustre la patria" (1876)

"Un recuerdo á mi pueblo" (1876)

"Al niño Jesús" (c. 1876)

"A la juventud filipina" (To the Philippine Youth, 1879)

"¡Me piden versos!" (1882)

"Canto de María Clara" (from Noli Me Tángere, 1887)

"Himno al trabajo" (Dalit sa Paggawa, 1888)

"Kundiman" (disputed, 1889) - also attributed to Pedro Paterno

"A mi musa" (To My Muse, 1890)

"El canto del viajero" (1892–96)

"Mi retiro" (1895)

"Mi último adiós" (1896)

"Mi primera inspiracion" (disputed) - also attributed to Antonio Lopez, Rizal's nephew

Plays

El Consejo de los Dioses (The Council of Gods)

Junto al Pasig (Along the Pasig)[74]: 381 

San Euistaquio, Mártyr (Saint Eustache, the Martyr)

The Reign of Greed (El Filibusterismo)

(Spanish for The Filibustering), also known by its English alternate title The Reign of Greed, is the second
novel written by Philippine national hero José Rizal. It is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere and like the first
book, was written in Spanish. Rizal began the work in October 1887 while practicing medicine in
Calamba. In London (1888), he made several changes to the plot and revised a number of chapters.
Rizal continued to work on his manuscript while in Paris, Madrid, and Brussels, finally completing it on
March 29, 1891 in Biarritz. It was published the same year in Ghent.

At present, El Filibusterismo is an important Filipino literary classic that is being studied in secondary
school (in the fourth year) in the Philippines, in accordance with the curriculum set by the Commission
on Higher Education.

The Social Cancer (Noli Me Tangere)

This novel has been a rich source of insights into the history and culture not only of 19th-century
Philippines but, as importantly, of the 20th-century as well. Its generally realistic perspective offers the
reader a panoramic view of a conflicted and deeply divided colonial society. The characters in the novel
stand out as recognizable types of individuals, both from the ruling class and the oppressed, and the
struggles they undergo are indices to the turbulent conflicts in the 19th century. The novel is also
significant for the specific ways in which it has shaped the trajectory of realistic novels in English and
Filipino. Such Filipino writers as Iñigo Ed. Regalado, Faustino Agiular, Juan C. Laya, Stevan Javellana, Nick
Joaquin, among others, have been influenced by the themes, motifs, and characters of this novel.
At present, Noli Me Tangere is an important Filipino literary classic that is being studied in secondary
school (in the third year) in the Philippines, in accordance with the curriculum set by the Commission on
Higher Education.