In general, Filipinology or Philippineology ( es, Filipinología) ( tl, Pilipinolohiya) or more formally known as Philippine studies refers to:About Philippine Studies at St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
, snc.edu

''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 ...
.''

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 ...

Philippine culture 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 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, 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 , image = University of The Philippines seal.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = Official Logo of UP Diliman , motto = Honor and Excellence , established = February 12, 194 ...

and had become part of curricula in some colleges and universities inside and outside the Philippines.

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- ...

. 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
City College of San Francisco, California, ccsf.edu

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

H. Brett Melendy Howard Brett MelendyMelendy, H. Brett (Howard Brett)
Guide to the ...

(...) "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. Biography ...

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 , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuits) , academic_aff ...

. 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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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 OnlineMaria Elena G. Yuchengco Philippine Studies ProgramUniversity 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 FranciscoCenter for Philippine Studies
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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

Purpose

Filipinologists

Publications

See also

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