(May 10)鈥 鈥淗umanities 茄子视频app: January to June 2018 issue鈥 (HD Vol. 15 No. 1) is now available online.
The latest issue of UP 茄子视频app鈥檚 (UPD) official internationally-refereed journal in the Arts and Humanities has six articles and one book review.听
The articles are: 鈥淟uwa: Entanglement in the Origin, Form, and Meaning of Balayan鈥檚 Oral Tradition鈥 by Aidel Paul G. Belamide; 鈥淔iguring the Figures of Speech in the Acehnese Traditional Song Lyrics鈥 by Ika Apriani Fata, Yunisrina Qismullah Yusuf, and Lia Novita Sari; 鈥淧ag-iimahe sa mga Batang Katutubo sa Ilang Piling Panitikang Pambata: Sipat at Siyasat sa Diskursong 鈥楾ribu鈥欌 by Mary Jane Rodriguez-Tatel; 鈥淓diciones de la traduccion al tagalo de la obra de Samuel Tissot el control de la salud publica en Filipinas en el siglo XIX鈥 by Susana Mar铆a Ram铆rez Mart铆n; 鈥淓merita Quito, Mary John Mananzan, and Filipina Philosophy: A Critical Comparison of the Thoughts of the two Leading Female Philosophers of the Philippines鈥 by Feorillo Petronilo A. Demeterio III and Leslie Anne L. Liwanag, and 鈥淚ntroducing Cultural Weight as a Tool of Comparative Analysis: An Emotioncy-Based Study of Social Class鈥 by Reza Pishghadam, Golshan Shakeebaee and Shaghayegh Shayesteh.
Dr. Patrick F. Campos, the journal鈥檚 editor-in-chief, said 鈥淭he present issue signal鈥檚 Humanities 茄子视频app鈥檚 expansion in scope from being a journal devoted solely to Philippine studies to being a Philippine journal on the humanities in general.鈥
Campos noted that the journal features articles that 鈥渃onsider not only Filipino cultural forms and ideas, such as the theatrical tradition in Batangas, Filipino children鈥檚 literature, and women philosophers in the Philippines, but also the lyric tradition in Aceh, the translation history of a French medical text, and a proposed research tool for comparative cultural studies emanating from Mashhad.鈥
Belamide鈥檚 paper is an exploratory research on the origin and forms of 鈥渓uwa,鈥 a poetic performance held in honor of a patron saint in Balayan, Batangas. It uses the concept of 鈥渆ntanglement鈥 as an alternative to hybridity and aims to 鈥渁ssess the significance of the luwa as both a colonial and post-colonial cultural form.鈥
The article of Fata, Yusuf and Sari is a descriptive study on the literature of Acehnese traditional song lyrics which also reflects the context of their culture, belief and life. The authors analyze eight songs based on the 11 figures of speech proposed by Kennedy and aims to investigate the 鈥渦se of figures of speech in Acehnese traditional song lyrics.
Tatel鈥檚 study probes into the nuances of 鈥榯ribe鈥 as it underwent the process of textualization
and reproduction from the colonial to the post-colonial context. The author also notes that it aims to 鈥渃ontribute to the emerging discourses in children鈥檚 literature as it intersects with the politics of representation and ethnicity.鈥
According to Campos, Tatel assesses 15 stories for children from the 2000s 鈥渢o verify if the colonial image of the tribe has been perpetuated into the new century or if contemporary writers have put counter-discursive images forward.鈥
Martin鈥檚 paper analyzes the evolution of the translation made on the work of Samuel Auguste Andr茅 David Tissot, one of the more important hygienist medical doctors of the second half of the 18th century. The author traces the 鈥渉istorical geographical, and linguistic itineraries of the controversial medical text鈥 by Tissot. Martin particularly focused on the Tagalog translation of Tissot鈥檚 book printed in the Philippines by a priest, Manuel Blanco which was edited three times (1823, 1831 and 1884) before the Philippines was occupied by the Americans and after the Spaniards left the archipelago (1916).听
In the article of Demetrio and Liwanag, Campos said the authors contribute to the literature of male-dominated Philippine philosophy by situating the work of two Filipina philosophers of contemporary times, Emerita Quito and Mary John Mananzan and contextualizing their philosophies as the main discourses of Filipino philosophy and Philippine society.听
The authors use the dialogical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, this paper aims at a deeper understanding of their thoughts through a critical comparison.
In the article of Pishghadam, Shakeebaee and Shayesteh, the authors proposed in their study the use of sensory concept of emotioncy (emotion + frequency of senses) and also attempt to introduce cultural weight as a new comparative tool in cultural studies. To provide empirical support for the proposed concept, the authors apply these concepts in an empirical study on the attitudes of over 300 Iranians from different social classes on a number of religious concepts.
The editor notes that considering the diverse topics in the journal, 鈥渨e gain a sense of the promises as well as the possibilities of a comparative approach to the humanities.鈥听
鈥淏y expanding the scope of Humanities 茄子视频app, the hope and the goal are for the journal to contribute to a wider cross-cultural dialogue that would sharpen all of our readers鈥 and contributors鈥 sensitivity to what is common among us in our humanity and how are differences are what move us to continually create shared places,鈥 Campos added.
Meanwhile, the journal also featured Eileen Legaspi Ramirez鈥檚 book review of 鈥淲eaving Cultures: The Invention of Colonial Artand Culture in the Philippines, 1656-1850鈥 written by Ren茅 B. Villanueva, SJ.听
Humanities 茄子视频app is an awardee of the Journal Challenge Grant through the Journal Incentive Program of the Commission on Higher Education. It is also a Scopus-indexed journal and is available via and and has been listed in the ASEAN Citation Index at .听
The members of the editorial board are:听 associate editors Dr. Leah Enkiwe-Abayao (UP Baguio), Dr. Ramon G. Guillermo (UPD), Dr. Carolyn S. Hau (Kyoto University), Dr. Scott Contreras-Koterbay (East Tennessee State University), Dr. Ruth Jordana L. Pison (UPD), Dr. Helen Yu Rivera (UPD), Dr. Matthew M. Santamaria (UPD) and Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino (UPD); managing editor Dr. Gonzalo A. Campoamor II, editorial assistant Epifania M. Domingo, layout artist Dercylis G. Mararac, and copy editors Arvin A. Mangohig and Eilene Antoinette G. Narvaez.
For the list of the members of the international advisory board, click听.
To inquire about the journal鈥檚 printed version, contact the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD) at (02) 981-8500 local 4048 or (02) 436-8720.
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