The Filipino Worldview through Art, Images, and Objects: From indigenous culture to the 19th century

This volume gathers twelve essays by scholars from the Philippines, Spain, and Mexico. It shows how Filipino identity was shaped, contested, and transmitted through texts, images, and objects across centuries of colonial contact and global exchange. Instead of presenting a singular narrative of the Filipino past, it traces three worlds—indigenous, colonial, and global—that have always overlapped in the archipelago, sometimes in tension, sometimes in conversation. But even the term Filipino carries centuries of history and debates, which makes the task of defining a Filipino worldview all the more demanding. The Filipino worldview, as this book makes clear, is not a fixed or finished thing. It is continually made and remade at the site of bayan, the meeting point of indigenous traditions, colonial systems, and global flows of objects, peoples, and ideas.

Paperback / Softbound

Dimension: 6.69 x 9.45 inches

Weight: 0.75 kg

ISBN: 978-971-538-394-3