Authentic Though Not Exotic : Essays on Filipino Identity
by Zialcita, Fernando NakpilFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary
Cultural identity continues to be important within and among nations. However, many Filipinos question the "authenticity" of their identity. They are uneasy about the heavy Spanish influence that came in with colonialism. They wonder if their culture is but a mixture of conflicting traditions. Moreover, they fear that the Hispanic presence seems an oddity in a Southeast Asia that defines itself as non-Western.
Author Biography
Fernando Nakpil Zialcita teaches at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University, and heads the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at the same
Table of Contents
| Introduction: An Identity under Question | p. 1 |
| Constructions of Community and Identity | |
| Toward a Community Broader than the Kin | p. 37 |
| When was Paradise Lost? | p. 81 |
| Bourgeois yet Revolutionary in 1896-1898 | p. 113 |
| A New Civil Culture Emerges | |
| The Costs and Benefits of Civil Culture | p. 141 |
| More Original than We Think | p. 179 |
| We Are All Mestizos | p. 211 |
| Identity in the Global Village | |
| As yet an Asian Flavor does not Exist | p. 239 |
| Southeast Asia is a Collage | p. 269 |
| References | p. 301 |
| Index | p. 329 |
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