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Authentic Though Not Exotic: Essays On Filipino Identity Fernando Nakpil Zialcita Toward a Community Broader than the Kin Kang ang abi ay walang ms Baan ay dl matt Iflove ir brent, counties il nt ast. —Enilo Jacinto, ca 1895-1896 SOME TEACHER FRIENDS in the locos confide hat when they visit sn unfamiliar hamles, even within the same municipality where they reside, hey carey smal bots of consecrated coconut ila protec: tion guns sorcery. One supposed sgn of hexng ie stomach disorder When I would mention wanting to visit say, another hamlet afew Iillometers down the rad, fiends would warn me that ie harbored sorcerers [mannamay]. However, in that hamlet-down-the-oad, fiends there would be concemed tha I had been saying in that hamlt-upthe-oad They feared forts sorcerer! This suspicious res toward outer, even ofthe sme ethniciy and language, hat characterized aon-llocanos aswell at ceein times in thee history. “Maximo Ramos (1971, 48), he folklorist, relates 2 1930s ele fom ‘he Tagalog speaking town of Lachsn, Quezon. Teachers came fom allover the province for a seminat, The townspeople aimed that during that week, black-winged creatures with human heads and ‘or but no lower bodies flew at night After the seminar ended, peace returned, Bicolanos have als had a similar tendency wo accise the stranger of witchcraft (Lynch 1963, 151). So do rural dwellers Jn Samar according to my sociologist coleague Lele Lope (2002) ‘who halle foen chat province 7 38 _FerandoN Ziacita TowardaCommnity Broader thantheKin 38 fen asm i that rod sere of community bas ben pret in our ele om th ry beginning Suppsty Ep tes hve asl tee al ham ee tspeced echoes petonboed, and have ened or sk nr ena sro: Ala eh ops of enn cloisonne des Vays Tagalog andor Engh th esd eto of ron ied sche Many seeing Wes alec nd teuing wn ‘enous ways as the solution.” eee Hover data ove how, pics cu een within the samen: op an win hunt mania. JP ra Bono horn antoplogi, ald me hat ding ine bere the Cones peoples who were nox Hispana he ces 3th way each de wih confi, Whe Hana al ey ‘ston apis another lg, Conileans in he tect pst ‘woul war gaint oth vilge ard Des a anole ff Amen Idan background tof he pron es BereenKlngs ils ding xy pu a ve wea es tu When Dos (196, 0 had go ma Kang lage another jus 30 ft a his byompanin nck 6 The oy fear "might be che visi of ong ran nse ght tals fie etn” On ethene

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