Culture Name Filipino Orientation Identification. 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,...
10066 or National Cultural Heritage act of 2009 tasked the National Center for Culture and the Arts to conserve the church. The Renovated San Agustin Church Image Source: commons.wikimedia.org In 1993, the San Agustin Church was named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Other Philippine ...
Market exchange also existed, and the output of nomadic and sedentary producers was marketed locally and, in the case of camels and horses, through long-distance trade. Markets and their specialized personnel of merchants and traders are as indigenous to the culture of Arabia as are Bedouin ...
I had twice been here but only briefly, and choosing Lucca (and later Cortona) for the first of our leisurely two-week stints has been a wonderful revelation. Lucca’s compact inner city, inhabited for over two-thousand years and still fully embraced by impressive ancient walls, is rich in...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In the Court of the Sultan: Orientalism, Nationalism, and Modernity in Philippine and Filipino American Dance Barbara S. Gaerlan * (bio) "Culture and the arts a... BS Gaerlan - 《Journal of Asian American Studies》 被引量...
In lieu of an , here is a brief excerpt of the content: Acknowledgments Thanks to Gary Hatfield and Margaret Werth for valuable suggestions and criticisms. Notes 1. Despite the absence of a comprehensive history, the literature on images has been growing. Many valuable partial accounts of a hi...
Ifugao priests lead ceremonies and are believed to have the power to influence the gods into performing earthly chores. UNESCO RECOGNITIONS IN IFUGAO In 1995, the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras were designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The inscription has five sites: the ...
Some regions, such as South Sumatra, South Kalimantan, and South Sulawesi, share a long-term Malayo-Muslim coastal influence that gives them similar cultural features, from arts and dress to political and class stratification to religion. Upland or upriver peoples in these regions have different ...
About 200 million years ago, the crest of islands now known as Japan rose from the sea as the North Pacific and Philippine plates descended under the continental shelf. As the mountainous islands weathered, areas of the sedimentary layer wore off, leaving the Japanese Alps, extru- sions of ...
The event drew widespread media attention and was later featured in the film Atomic Café (1987). Historians have paid increasing attention to the impact of the Cold War on American culture. Subscriptions. The OAH Magazine of History is a quarterly publication, and appears in Janu- ary, April...