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F. Landa Jocano

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226:, then an anthropologist working for the National Museum of the Philippines, who got him a job as "research aid" at the museum - doing mostly janitorial work. Through his work ethic and by taking the initiative to draw the museum director's attention to his typing skills, Jocano was eventually moved to the museum's typing pool. 234:", a high school teaching supplement regularly issued by the Department of Education at the time. Jocano's condition for the reprinting was that the publication would also indicate his position as "janitor." As a result, Jocano was promoted from "Research Aid" to "Scientist 1", although his job description remained the same. 345:
His Core Population Theory proposed that there weren't clear discrete waves of migration, but a long process of cultural evolution and movement of people. The theory suggests that early inhabitants of Southeast Asia were once of the same ethnic group with similar culture, but eventually - through a
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At one time, he got himself hired as a motel boy while doing a study on sexuality among Filipinos. He confided that he surprised some of his colleagues who patronized these motels. From that study, Pepe gave me a chapter which I published in my journal, Solidarity. Right at the press, some 20 copies
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Jocano eventually decided to come home to teach at the University of the Philippines, where he served until his retirement 31 years later. In that time, he served among other functions, as Chairman of the UP Department of Anthropology, director of Philippine Studies Program at the UP Asian Center,
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He finished his elementary studies at a public school in Iloilo and then ran away to Manila because his family could not afford to send him to high school. He eventually graduated from the Arellano High School in Manila, working his way through to graduation. After this, he tried to enroll in some
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As one of the earliest Filipino-born researchers to receive proper scholarly training in anthropology, Jocano became a pioneer in the use of Participant Observation as a research methodology in Philippine ethnographic research, applying it in numerous places, including Capiz, Ilocos, and notably,
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The epic recounts the story of the exploits of three Sulodnon demigod brothers, Labaw Donggon, Humadapnon and Dumalapdap of ancient Panay. Jocano, assisted by a radio technician from the Central Philippine University, convinced Sulod folk chanters Ulang Udig and Hugan-an to recount the story, and
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Jocano's work as a scholarly writer was prolific and wide-ranging. His study of ethnology expanded into numerous aspects of Filipino life - from folklore and pre-colonial history to international relations, to the rural community and urban slum life. He was one of the first to even suggest the
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Work at the National Museum inspired Jocano to write a series of articles discussing Philippine legends surrounding plant and animal life, which was published in the Manila Times. The Department of Education took note of the series and asked Jocano if it could be published in
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And at one time, a relative accosted him in Quiapo where he was actually begging at the church door to gather data on his study of the urban poor. The relative was so shocked to see him there in tatters, he had to drag away the protesting scholar with the promise to help
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allow them to record it on cassette. The process of acquiring this permission took years, from Jocano's first contact with Ulang Udig in 1955 to the recording of Hugan-an's 30-hour performance of the epic in 1957. Jocano eventually also published the text in his book "
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Significant body of work within the field of Philippine cultural anthropology, widely recognized as "the country's foremost cultural anthropologist" during his lifetime. Proponent of the Core Population Theory of the peopling of Southeast Asia
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One of Jocano's earliest major contributions to the field of cultural anthropology and a significant contribution to recorded Filipino folk literature was the documentation of the epic poem
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and Executive Director of PUNLAD Research House, Inc. and a professor in University of the Philippines. He has authored numerous books on various aspects of Filipino Society and Culture.
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living in the community and taking part, whenever possible in the activities of the members, observing what they do and checking the observed behaviour in terms of what they say and do.
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anthropologist, educator, and author known for his significant body of work within the field of Philippine Anthropology, and in particular for documenting and translating the
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disappeared. The issue was sold out in a couple of months, I had to order a reprint. As one academic told me — it was a landmark article — the first "scholarly pornography.
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to earn a master's degree in Anthropology, graduating in 1962. He took up a teaching position there and later got his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the same university.
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college courses, but distractions and an illness forced him to return to his native Iloilo in 1954, where we eventually earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the
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Panopio, I. and Rolda, R. S. (2000). Society and Culture: Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology. JMC Press, Inc. Quezon City. 12. Ritzer, G. (2000).
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Jocano's association with the University of the Philippines continued after retirement, as he was named professor emeritus of the UP Asian Center.
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It was during Jocano's period of return to Iloilo that he first developed an interest in folklore. This interest brought him into contact with
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National Artist F. Sionil Jose recounts that some of Jocano's adventures in Participant Observation resulted in memorably humorous episodes:
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One cannot possibly go up and paper and ask questions without arousing suspicions especially among street corner gang members.
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agreed with Jocano. However some still preferred Beyer's theory as the more acceptable model, including anthropologist
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Jocano married Adria Payad and they had two children, Felipe Jr. and Lizabeth. He died in 2013 at the age of 83.
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In 1999, he was awarded a special citation for a lifetime of writing and publishing on various aspects of
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in 1930 - the ninth of eleven children born to Eusebio Jocano, a persevere farmer, and Anastacia Landa.
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gradual process driven by environmental factors - differentiated themselves from one another.
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Dean of the UP Institute of Philippine Studies, and head of Asian Center Museum Laboratory.
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Rowthorn, Chris; Monique Choy; Michael Grosberg; Steven Martin; Sonia Orchard (2003).
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Social Organization in Three Philippine Villages: An Exploration in Rural Anthropology
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ethnological study of the development of the Philippines' corporate culture.
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Filipino Indigenous Ethnic Communities: Patterns, Variations, and Typologies
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Filipino Social Organization: Traditional Kinship and Family Organization
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Return to Iloilo, interest in folklore, and work at the National Museum
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Jocano's work in the Slum of Looban was seminal in its insistence on "
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San Antonio: A Study of a Tagalog Fishing Village in Laguna Lake
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Jocano was one of the first scholars to suggest alternatives to
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Pioneering use of Participant Observation in Philippine settings
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National Commission for Culture and the Arts (Philippines)
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the urban poor community of Looban, Sta Mesa in Manila.
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the country's first and foremost cultural anthropologist
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Filipino Prehistory: Rediscovering Precolonial Heritage
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Hiligaynon: An Ethnography of Family and Community Life
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Filipino Prehistory: Rediscovering Precolonial Heritage
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Taking advantage of a study grant, Jocano went to the
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Ilocano: An Ethnography of Family and Community Life
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Filipino Family in Its Rural and Urban Orientations
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Working With Filipinos: A Cross-Cultural Experience
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Index

Philippine name
middle name
family name
Cabatuan, Iloilo
Philippine Islands
Central Philippine University
BA
University of Chicago
MA
Ph.D.
Filipino
Hinilawod
Western Visayan
folk epic
National Artist
F. Sionil Jose
Professor Emeritus
University of the Philippines
Cabatuan, Iloilo
Central Philippine University
Robert Fox
University of Chicago
Philippine culture
Hinilawod
H. Otley Beyer
migration to the Philippines
Robert Fox
Alfredo E. Evangelista
Jesus Peralta
Zeus A. Salazar

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