Public Engagement

Taw-an, enkantádo and biodiversity

In a conference last Nov. 7 to 9 hosted by Bicol University in Legazpi City, Albay about climate-smart knowledge management for the uplands, where...

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - November 18, 2012

Public Engagement

Providing spaces also for the dead

Annually, during All Saint’s Day and All Soul’s Day, you may have realized the crowding of people in public cemeteries, not to mention the...

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - November 11, 2012

Public Engagement

Patay, kalág, kalágkalág

Humans are the only species that celebrate life stages starting from birth to death. Some argue that life already starts when the egg and...

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - November 4, 2012

Public Engagement

Pagatban: One river, diverse lives

The Anthropological Association of the Philippines or the Ugnayang Pang-AghamTao (UGAT) Inc. will hold its annual conference from Oct. 25 to 27 at the...

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - October 21, 2012

Public Engagement

Bayawan, tawo-tawo, baye-baye

Let me start with how the name of Bayawan City, my birthplace, originated because this has connection to the tawo-tawo and baye-baye which are...

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - October 14, 2012

Public Engagement

Questioning Buglasan Festival

Festival is synonymous with fiesta, carnival, celebration and event; and all these terms are associated to merrymaking with corresponding reasons for regularly staging it....

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - October 7, 2012

Public Engagement

Perceptions, measures and reality

Often, we hear some people remark not to seriously take what other people think or say about something in the absence of evidence or...

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - September 30, 2012

Public Engagement

Local politics and environmental agenda

Local politics is used here to refer to state-linked production, allocation, and utilization or exercise of power associated with local government units. I learned...

Dr. Enrique G. Oracion - September 23, 2012

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