Indigenizing Social Sciences

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 Indigenizing
-is
a process of making something
or someone more native to suit a
local culture, especially through
the use of more indigenous
people.
Social Sciences
is a category of academic
disciplines concerned with
society and the relationships
among individuals within a
society
 The indigenization crisis currently
happening in the social sciences stems
Indigenization from the inability of a researcher to
observe and interpret social phenomena
in from the perspective and the meaning
systems of the culture within which the
social science research is taking place and from which
data is to be gathered.
Filipino Social Science
Filipinology
(Filipino: Filipinolohiya) or
Philippine Studies refers to
the study of the Philippines
and the Filipino people.
 It encompasses the study of Filipino history,
Filipino culture, Philippine languages, Filipino
society, Filipino life, Filipino psyche or Filipino
psychology, Filipino politics, and Filipino
government. The approaches or perspectives of
Philippine Studies could be theoretical,
interdisciplinary, comparative, transnational,
and global.
 • Filipinology was
developed in the
University of the
Philippines become
part of curricular in
some colleges and
universities inside
and outside the
Philippines.
Belinda A. Aquino
• Belinda A. Aquino, former director of
the Center for Philippine Studies at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa, defines
Philippine Studies as "studies of
Philippine culture and society, (which)
started in the early 1900s when the
Philippines became a colony of the
United States.
Filipinology Pioneer
• Dr. Belinda A. Aquino, former director of the
Center for Philippine Studies.
• The first-ever awardee of the prestigious Dr.
Jose Rizal Award for Peace and receiver of
the University of the Philippines (UP) Alumni
Association Lifetime Distinguished
Achievement Award,
• Aquino is one of the most distinguished and
renowned Filipino academics and experts of
her time.
• Aquino is a professor and director of the
Center for Philippine Studies at the University
of Hawaii-Manoa (UHM) and recently
established the Belinda A. Aquino
International Philippine Studies endowment.
 Purpose
Earning goals of Filipinology include
the comprehension, appreciation, and
critical evaluation of the Philippines
through Philippine History,
contemporary issues in Philippine
community, and Philippine Humanities
such as Filipino philosophy, Filipino
music, Filipino art, Philippine
literature, and Philippine dance. The
incorporation of Philippine Humanities
through literary readings, listening to
musical recordings, film viewings, and
field trips provide development of
cultural acceptance and aesthetic
sense.
 • Philippine Studies extend to connecting
contributions of persons of Filipino descent
to new settings and culture (such as
Overseas Filipinos to other countries). Apart
from providing education and awareness
about the Philippines.
• Filipinology aims to make students of
Philippine Studies aware of Filipino ethnic
identity by experiencing Philippine culture.
Filipinologists Experts on Filipinology are called
filipinologists (Filipino: Pilipinista; literally
"experts in Filipino culture"). the "foremost"
non-Filipino filipinologist is the Spaniard
bibliographer Wenceslao Emilio Retana y
Gamboa.
Other prominent non-Filipino filipinologists are
William Henry Scott, H. Brett Melendy ,
Ferdinand Blumentritt, and A.V. Hartendorp.
Among the prominent Russian filipinologists are
Vladimir Makarenko and Podberezsky.
William Henry Scott

• (July 10, 1921 – October 4, 1993)

• was a historian of the Gran
Cordillera Central and Prehispanic
Philippines. He personally rejected
the description anthropologist as
applying to himself
Howard Brett Melendy
(May 30, 1924 – April 19, 2008)
was a prominent American historian, writer,
researcher, publisher, autobiographer, dean, history
professor, and filipinologist. Melendy was a
professor and administrator at the San José State
University in California and the University of
Hawai’i.
As a professor, he taught about the history of
California and United States history. He was the first
chairman of the history department of San José
State University. He was a life member of the
American Historical Association.
 Ferdinand Blumentritt
(10 September 1853 – 20 September 1913)
was a teacher, secondary school principal in
Leitmeritz, lecturer, and author of articles and
books in the Philippines and its ethnography.
He is well known in the Philippines for his close
friendship with the writer and Propagandist,
José Rizal, and the numerous correspondence
between the two provide a vital reference for
Rizal historians and scholars, including his last
letter from prison before the execution.
Abraham Van Heyningen Hartendorp
(1893–1975)
commonly known as A.V.H. Hartendorp or A.V. Hartendorp, was an American
writer, editor, Thomasite, and Filipinologist. He was the founder and publisher of the
Philippine Magazine, a magazine formerly known as Philippine Education Magazine
when it was still a publication intended for public school teachers in 1904. When
Hantendorp bought the magazine in 1924, he officially changed its name into
Philippine Magazine[1][2] and became the "most prestigious outlet" for aspiring
writers in the Philippines. In 1930, Hartendorp dedicated the magazine to "full
recording of all phases of the present cultural development of the Philippines" up to
"the Philippine Renaissance." Hartendorp catered the Philippine Magazine to an
"urban-based audience of educated elites", particularly "schoolteachers,
employees of the government, professionals, and university intellectuals".[3]
Hartendorp was also a former editor of The Manila Times newspaper
Manuel Quezon
• Father of National Language Manuel Luis M.
Quezon. Quezon was the first Senate
president elected to the presidency, the first
president elected through a national election,
and the first incumbent to secure re-election
(for a partial second term, later extended, due
to amendments to the 1935 Constitution).
• For pushing Commonwealth Act No. 184 that
established the National Language Institute
and a consequent Philippine national
language, Quezon has been tagged as his
country's "Father of the National Language".
Antonio de Morga

• He was also a historian. After being reassigned to

Mexico
• He published the book Sucesos de las islas Filipinas
in 1609, considered one of the most important wo
rks on the early history of the Spanish colonization
of the Philippines.
• As Deputy Governor in the Philippines, he restored
the audencia. He took over the function of jud ge or
oidor. He also took command of Spanish ships in a
1600 naval battle against Dutch corsairs, but
suffered defeat and barely survived.
Wenceslao E. Retana
• Wenceslao "Wenchesco" Emilio Gamboa Retana
also known as w.E. Retana or Wenceslao E.
Retana
• was a 19th-century Spanish civil servant colonial
administrator, writer, biographer, political
commentator, publisher, bibliophile, bibliographer,
Filipiniana collector, Spanish filipinologist, and
Philippine scholar.
• Retana was a "onetime adversary" of Philippine
national hero José Rizal who later became an
"admirer" who wrote the first biographical
account of the life of Rizal entitled Vida y Escritos
del Dr. José Rizal or "Life and Writings of Dr. José
Rizal". Rosa M. Vallejo described Retana as the
"foremost" non-Filipino filipinologist
Bernardita Reyes Churchill, PH.D

The current President of the the

Philippine National Historical
Society, Inc., the oldest
professional organization of
historians in the Philippines
founded in 1941
 The Center for Philippine Studies (CPS) was originally established as a
Program in 1975 by an Act of the Hawai'i State Legislature to recognize

UHM Center for the contributions of Filipinos to the history of Hawai'i and to highlight the
academic expertise on the Philippines at the University of Hawai'i at
Mānoa. It was subsequently established at the University of Hawaii as a
Philippine Studies Philippine Studies Program under the Asian Studies Program, which
later became the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
 Philippine Studies and
University of San Francisco
One of the few programs in the
United States and one of the largest
in the world, the Yuchengco
Philippine Studies Program (YPSP)
is an interdisciplinary minor
SPECIALIZING in Philippine, Pilipino,
and/or Filipino American history,
literature, sociology, politics,
religion, art, and language.
 Philippine National
Historical Society

In 1941, through the efforts of

Rodriguez and Eufronio M. Alip, this
mere student club evolved into a
national organization, named
Philippine Historical Society, which
aimed to "encourage and
undertake the study of Philippine
history."
The Philippine is a private, non-stock, non-profit organization of
professional social science associations and
Social Science social science research and instructional
Council (PSSC) institutions in the Philippines.
Philippine Sociological Society
 The PHILIPPINE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
is a professional association of historians in the Philippines. It was founded on September 18,
1955 by a group of prominent historians at Carbungco Restaurant located at Lepanto St.,
Manila. PHA is affiliated with the National Historical Commission TAATARY PIPINAS of the
Philippines (NHCP), the Nation al Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the
Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC). It also a founding member of the International
Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA).
National Commission for Culture
& Arts In 1987, then President
Corazon C. Aquino penned
Executive Order No. 118 creating
the Presidential Commission on
Culture and Arts. Five years
later, in 1992, this presidential
directive was enacted into law-
Republic Act 7356, creating the
National Commission for Culture
and the Arts (NCCA).
The National Historical Commission of
the Philippines
• The National Historical Commission of the Philippines
(Filipino: Pambansa ng Komisyong Pangkasaysayan ng
Pilipinas, abbreviated NHCP) is a government agency
of the Philippines. its mission is "the promotion of
Philippine history and cultural heritage through
research, dissemination, conservation, sites
management and heraldry works." As such, it "aims to
inculcate awareness and appreciation of the noble
deeds and ideals of our heroes and other illustrious
Filipinos, to instill pride in the Filipino people and to
rekindle the Filipino spirit through the lessons of
history.
 Filipino Heritage
Library
Owned by Ayala Foundation As a one-
stop electronic research center on the
Philippines, the Filipinas Heritage
Library (FHL) houses contemporary
and rare volumes on Philip pine art,
history, and culture; vintage recordings
of Philip pine music; vintage
photographs; and maps, periodicals,
and multimedia materials.
National Museum of
the Filipino People,
also known as the
NATIONAL MUSEUM
of Anthropology, is a
component museum
of the National
Museum of the
Philippines that
houses the
anthropology and
archaeology
divisions
 The National Library of
the Philippines
(Filipino: Pambansang Aklatan ng
Pilipinas or Aklatang Pambansa ng
Pilipinas, ANG TIORANG AKLATAN
LIBRARY THE abbreviated NLP) is the
official national library of the Philippines.
The complex is in Ermita on a portion of
Rizal Park facing T.M. Kalaw Avenue,
neighboring culturally significant
buildings such as the Museum of
Philippine Political History and the
National Historical Commission National
Library of the Philippines Integrated
Library System
The Cebuano Studies Center

• is a center of research on all aspects

of Cebuano culture. It functions as (1) a
special library to house source
materials pertaining to Cebu, as well as
the predominantly Cebuano- speaking
areas in the country; (2) a research
center devoted to studies CEBUANO
STUDIES CENTER pertaining to Cebu in
the area of the humanities and social
sciences; and (3) a special office
assisting in the promotion of Cebuano
culture and the arts.