Railroad to Baguio: Progress and Folly

Railroad to Baguio: Progress and Folly

How Baguio City was made accessible from the lowland and at what cost.

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[PARTNER] In Plain Sight: Mindanao Textile Arts and Culture Come to San Francisco

[PARTNER] In Plain Sight: Mindanao Textile Arts and Culture Come to San Francisco

Indigenous peoples of the Philippines exhibit their crafts and dances.

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Baguio On My Mind

Baguio On My Mind

There are still simple pleasures to be had in the haphazardly urbanizing Summer Capital of the Philippines.

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Porcelain and Pansit: The Philippine Chinese

Porcelain and Pansit: The Philippine Chinese

Filipinos have an ambivalence toward the Chinese and yet their influence flows freely in our cultural bloodstream.

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Antoon Postma and the Mangyan Legacy

Antoon Postma and the Mangyan Legacy

Between the two of them, the scholars Postma and Conklin left a formidable legacy, a treasure, a baseline archive that puts the Hanunóo as one of the most unique cultures not only in the Philippines, but also among all indigenous peoples worldwide.

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An Ilongot Murder Mystery

An Ilongot Murder Mystery

Review: Headhunting William Jones. Producer, writer, director, videographer, editor: Collis H. Davis, Jr. Assoc. producer, researcher and translator, Violeta P. Hughes (2016)

Ilongot warriors murdered well-liked anthropologist William Jones in 1909. A documentary film, Headhunting William Jones, tries to find out why.

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Heneral Antonio Luna’s Railroad

Heneral Antonio Luna’s Railroad

Tutuban Station, now a shopping center, was once the gateway to the promise of Philippine progress.

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Please Stop Calling the Philippines ‘P.I.’

Please Stop Calling the Philippines ‘P.I.’

When some folks still refer to the Philippines as “P.I.,” they’re way behind the times.

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