Myfel D Paluga
Biographic Data
| ID | 5008476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myfel D Paluga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myfel D |
| FAMILY NAME | Paluga |
| SIGNATURE | PALUGA M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Philippines Mindanao |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0031-7839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The People That Dwell on the Heights
This study reconstructs life in the southern Mindanao highlands from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century from historical accounts and contemporary ethnographic observations. It explores the evolving relationships among highland groups, referred to as “atas,” “ata-as,” or “ataas,” and other communities in the region. Such terms, later recognized officially as “Ata,” were used by non-highlanders to denote highland communities …
The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics
This article argues that the enigmatic figure of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in the Visayan Labaw Donggon and the Sugidanon epics of Panay is not just a random flair in literary imagery, but works as a cultural pointer to a coherent and durable schema relating to personhood (of a self composed of ‘detachable’ or ‘partible’ parts) as it intersects with a particular ontology (of basic reality from a construal of ‘breathing’). Our ethnographic-comparat…
An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines
No image of precolonial Visayans is as emblematic as the tattooed Pintados. But this imagery is almost always coupled with notions of warriorship and male valour in scholarly and popular discourses about the early Visayas. Comparing what we know about Visayan tattooing with customary tattooing in southern Mindanao and other tattooing traditions in the Austronesian-speaking world has opened methodological queries on how to re-read the historical m…
Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines
Imperial Creatures
This book covers a century and a half of human-animal relations, narrated from a historical perspective, with varied themes, centered around Singapore, a small but economically-and civilizationally (p.116)-significant region of Southeast Asia.It begins with the arrival of Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1819 and ends with the country's capture by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1942.Covering these dates, Barnard weaves a roughly chronological series of …
An Ethnography of Pantaron Manobo Tattooing ( Pangotoeb )
Pangotoeb refers to the traditional tattooing among the Pantaron Manobo of Mindanao, a practice that has not been given a systematic description and analysis before in Philippine or Mindanao studies. After giving a review of early historical and recent reports on this practice, this article provides an ethnographic description of Pantaron Manobo tattooing on the following aspects: (a) the tattoo practitioner (and her socio-symbolic contexts); (b)…
Moral Politics in the Philippines
An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines
No image of precolonial Visayans is as emblematic as the tattooed Pintados. But this imagery is almost always coupled with notions of warriorship and male valour in scholarly and popular discourses about the early Visayas. Comparing what we know about Visayan tattooing with customary tattooing in southern Mindanao and other tattooing traditions in the Austronesian-speaking world has opened methodological queries on how to re-read the historical m…
The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics
This article argues that the enigmatic figure of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in the Visayan Labaw Donggon and the Sugidanon epics of Panay is not just a random flair in literary imagery, but works as a cultural pointer to a coherent and durable schema relating to personhood (of a self composed of ‘detachable’ or ‘partible’ parts) as it intersects with a particular ontology (of basic reality from a construal of ‘breathing’). Our ethnographic-comparat…
An Ethnography of Pantaron Manobo Tattooing ( Pangotoeb )
Pangotoeb refers to the traditional tattooing among the Pantaron Manobo of Mindanao, a practice that has not been given a systematic description and analysis before in Philippine or Mindanao studies. After giving a review of early historical and recent reports on this practice, this article provides an ethnographic description of Pantaron Manobo tattooing on the following aspects: (a) the tattoo practitioner (and her socio-symbolic contexts); (b)…
Moral Politics in the Philippines
Imperial Creatures
This book covers a century and a half of human-animal relations, narrated from a historical perspective, with varied themes, centered around Singapore, a small but economically-and civilizationally (p.116)-significant region of Southeast Asia.It begins with the arrival of Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1819 and ends with the country's capture by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1942.Covering these dates, Barnard weaves a roughly chronological series of …
The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics
This article argues that the enigmatic figure of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in the Visayan Labaw Donggon and the Sugidanon epics of Panay is not just a random flair in literary imagery, but works as a cultural pointer to a coherent and durable schema relating to personhood (of a self composed of ‘detachable’ or ‘partible’ parts) as it intersects with a particular ontology (of basic reality from a construal of ‘breathing’). Our ethnographic-comparat…
An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines
No image of precolonial Visayans is as emblematic as the tattooed Pintados. But this imagery is almost always coupled with notions of warriorship and male valour in scholarly and popular discourses about the early Visayas. Comparing what we know about Visayan tattooing with customary tattooing in southern Mindanao and other tattooing traditions in the Austronesian-speaking world has opened methodological queries on how to re-read the historical m…
Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines
The People That Dwell on the Heights
This study reconstructs life in the southern Mindanao highlands from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century from historical accounts and contemporary ethnographic observations. It explores the evolving relationships among highland groups, referred to as “atas,” “ata-as,” or “ataas,” and other communities in the region. Such terms, later recognized officially as “Ata,” were used by non-highlanders to denote highland communities …
Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philippine History and Culture (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works)