In general, Filipinology or Philippineology ( es, Filipinología) ( tl, Pilipinolohiya) or more formally known as Philippine studies refers to:
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''The study of the Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
and its people
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of pr ...
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It encompasses the study of
Philippine history
Earliest hominin activity in the Philippine archipelago is dated back to at least 709,000 years ago. ''Homo luzonensis'', a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon at least 67,000 years ago. The earliest known anatomically ...
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[ ]Philippine culture
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural diversity. Although the Ethnic groups in the Philippines, multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipinos, Filipino Filipino natio ...
, Philippine languages
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages ...
, Philippine society
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural diversity. Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, their cultures were all shaped by the ...
, Philippine life, Philippine psyche or Philippine psychology
Filipino psychology, or ''Sikolohiyang Pilipino'', in Filipino, is defined as the psychology rooted on the experience, ideas, and cultural orientation of the Filipinos. It was formalized in 1975 by the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino' ...
,[Tolentino, Rolando B. "discipline called 'Pilipinolohiya' (Filipinology or studies of the Filipino psyche, culture and society" (...), Postnational family/postfamilial nation: family, small town and nation talk in Marcos and Brocka, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, informaworld.com] Philippine politics
The politics of the Philippines take place within a three-branch governmental system. The country is a democracy, led by a directly elected president who serves as both the head of state and the head of government. The president heads the execu ...
, and Philippine government
The Government of the Philippines ( fil, Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas) has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and d ...
.[Yuchengco Philippine Studies]
, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of San Francisco, usfca.edu The approaches or perspectives of Philippine Studies could be theoretical, interdisciplinary, comparative, transnational, and global.[Philippine Studies Quarterly]
, Ateneo de Manila Press, ateneopress.org Filipinology was developed in the University of the Philippines Diliman
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[ and had become part of curricula in some colleges and universities inside and outside the Philippines.
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Purpose
Learning goals of Filipinology include the comprehension, appreciation, and critical evaluation of the Philippines through Philippine History
Earliest hominin activity in the Philippine archipelago is dated back to at least 709,000 years ago. ''Homo luzonensis'', a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon at least 67,000 years ago. The earliest known anatomically ...
, contemporary issues in Philippine community, and Philippine Humanities such as Filipino philosophy, Filipino music
The music of the Philippines ( fil, Musika ng Pilipinas) includes the musical performance arts in the Philippines and the music of Filipinos composed in various local and international genres and styles. Philippine musical compositions are ofte ...
, Filipino art, Philippine literature
Philippine literature is literature associated with the Philippines from prehistory, through its colonial legacies, and on to the present.
Pre-Hispanic Philippine literature was actually epics passed on from generation to generation, o ...
, and Philippine dance
Dance in the Philippines has played a tremendous role in Filipino culture. From one of the oldest dated dances called the ''Tinikling'', to other folkloric dances such as the ''Pandanggo'', ''Cariñosa'', and ''Subli'', and even to more modern-d ...
.[ The incorporation of Philippine Humanities through literary readings, listening to musical recordings, film viewings, and field trips provide development of cultural acceptance and aesthetic sense.][42. Philippine Humanities]
Announcement of Courses, Philippine Studies, ccsf.edu Philippine Studies extend to connecting contributions of persons of Filipino descent to new settings and culture (such as Overseas Filipino
An overseas Filipino ( fil, Pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of full or partial Filipino origin—i.e., people who trace back their ancestry to the Philippines but living or residing outside the country. This term generally applies to b ...
s to other countries).[ ] Apart from providing education and awareness about the Philippines, Filipinology aims to make students of Philippine Studies aware of Filipino ethnic identity by experiencing Philippine culture.[Mission Statement of the Philippine Studies Department]
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Filipinologists
Experts on Filipinology or Philippineology are called filipinologists or philippineologists (Spanish: ''Filipinologista'') (Tagalog: ''Pilipinolohista''); literally “experts in Philippine culture”.
According to Rosa M. Vallejo the "foremost non-Filipino filipinologist" is the Spaniard
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance ethnic group native to Spain. Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both ind ...
bibliographer
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...
Wenceslao Emilio Retana y Gamboa
Wenceslao "Wenchesco" Emilio Retana y Gamboa (September 28, 1862 – January 21, 1924), also known as W.E. Retana or Wenceslao E. Retana, was a 19th-century Spain, Spanish polymath.
He was a civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, biogra ...
.[Vallejo, Rosa M]
(...) "Wenceslao Emilio Retana y Gamboa, foremost foreign Filipinologist" (...)
Bibliographical Works, Philippine Bibliographies, ncca.gov.ph
Other prominent foreign filipinologists are William Henry Scott,[Footnote: "William Henry Scott"]
jstor.org (...) "Filipinologist H. Brett Melendy" (...)
"Blame Their Damaged Culture", Filipinos in the U.S.: ‘Where Are You from? When Are You Going Back?’, bulatlat.com Ferdinand Blumentritt
Ferdinand Johann Franz Blumentritt (10 September 1853, Prague – 20 September 1913, Litoměřice) was an Austrian teacher, secondary school principal in Leitmeritz, lecturer, and author of articles and books in the Philippines and its ethno ...
,[Riegel, Christine and Thomas Geisen]
Footnote: (...) "Ferdinand Blumentritt was a Filipinologist (...)
''Jugend, Zugehörigkeit und Migration: Subjektpositionierung im Kontext von ...'' , books.google.com and A.V. Hartendorp.[(...) "filipinologist A.V. Hartendorp" (...)]
from the article "139th Birth Anniversary of Don Epifanio De Los Santos", Manila Bulletin, mb.com.ph
Among the prominent Russian filipinologists are Vladimir Makarenko
Vladimir Afanasyevich Makarenko (russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич Мака́ренко; 9 December 1933, in Moscow – 13 February 2008, in Moscow) was a Russian orientalist, linguist, lexicographer, and translator.
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and Podberezsky.
Publications
Publications dealing with Filipinology seek to reach specialist and non-specialist audience from and outside the Philippines. Among such Philippine Studies literature is the quarterly journal '' Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints'' published by the Ateneo de Manila University
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. Founded in 1953, the journal serves as a “forum” for disseminating many aspects of life in the Philippines through research in history, humanities and social sciences, “friendly and constructive debate”, and the expression of scholarly views.[Philippine Studies]
PhilJOL, philjol.info Another publication is the book written by Remigio E. Agpalo entitled ''Adventures in Political Science''. With an introduction written by Zeus A. Salazar, Agpalo’s book is a “major contribution” to Filipinology that covers important areas of political science
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...
in the Philippines, including political dynamics, comparative government, comparative politics, Philippine government, Philippine politics, political philosophy, political theory, political methodology, constitutional law, modernization and political development.[''Adventures in Political Science'']
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See also
*International Association of Filipinologists
The International Association of Filipinologists ( es, Asociación internacional de las filipinistas; french: Association Internationale des Philippinistes; german: Internationale Vereinigung der Filipinologen) is a defunct international organizati ...
References
External links
Philippine Studies Quarterly
of the Ateneo de Manila University Press
Philippine Humanities Review
of the University of the Philippines at Diliman
Philippine Journals Online
Maria Elena G. Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program
University of San Francisco
Philippine Studies Certificate Program
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St. Norbert College
De Pere, Wisconsin
Philippine Studies Department
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City College of San Francisco
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University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan
Southeast Asian studies
Education in the Philippines