The Republic of the Philippines was named the Filipinas to honor King Philip the Second of Spain in 1543. The Philippine Islands was the name used before independence. Location and Geography. The Republic of the Philippines, a nation of 7,107 islands with a total area of 111,830 square ...
Spatial analysis of human population distribution and growth in Marinduque Island, Philippines 2015, Journal of Marine and Island Cultures Citation Excerpt : Small islands are composed of small land masses surrounded by ocean and are commonly prone to either hydrological and geological disasters (Mimura...
Art: the Philippines,archipelago of exchange Paris’s ever-probing Musée du Quai Branly does for ethnographic art what the Rijksmuseum does for Rembrandts and this show of oft-overlooked early Filippino art takes a swish through the pre-colonial era. Dwelling on the twin concerns of land and ...
If films are not shot in the Manila area (and the vast majority are), they are still written, directed, acted and financed by people who live in Manila. Yet as well as the term "Tagalog movies" captures the specific vantage point from which movies in the Philippines are made, it does...
Paete has a rich history in the visual arts. Logs of acacia, molave, tipolo or batikuling being loaded onto sawmill or carving shops are a common sight here. Unfortunately, the forests of the Philippines are rapidly being destroyed and plant species are slowly disappearing. The townspeople mus...
The population in 1990 was nearly 150,000, a six fold increase since 1940, largely as a result of immigration after 1965. In 1990, only 43 percent of the population was of Chamorro ancestry. The largest immigrant population is from the Philippines, followed by American military personnel and ...
Constructing globalization in the Philippines: Labour, land and identity on Manila's industrializing periphery. Secondly, while globalization, and its embeddedness in places, operates as a material process, it is also a social construction and political discourse which, by locating the 'driving force'...
PhilippinesSelf-serving and illusory is how we see the governments report to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). It suppresses the real picture of the culture of impunity happening in the Philippines and in Mindanao. The report even fails to mention the legal achievements such as ...
collective practices can be found in rice farms in the Philippines, where farmers gather and agree on a timetable to work on each other’s farms and value the commitment they provide to one another, led by a “common desire for cultural preservation and community solidarity”77. In ranching ...
. It is an amazing fact that if not most but many Ukrainians believe in God(& they are Christians like me) as what I have read in an article and they value family too. I'm wondering to have my first on that country one day, i love to travel. I'm from far east Philippines BTW...