De La Salle University Publishing House (DLSUPH)
Ferdinand Blumentritt and the Philippines: Insights and Lessons for Contemporary Philippine Studies
Author: Feorillo Petronilo Demeterio III
Published and distributed by:
De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House, 2013
ISBN 978-971-555-576-0
246 pages
In about 200 pages, this book opens unique doors towards a higher and quite distinct plane of discourse in Philippine Studies via a freshly minted Ferdinand Blumentritt. The author, with his evident and even rare scholarship aside, dishes out personal reflections which underscores his fundamental wisdom which liberates library research from mere transmutation of readings into an evolution and transformation of resurrected spirits. General readers will find the formal, methodical and theoretical analyses engaging and provocative. Dr. F. P. A. Demeterio IlI essays with a style that assures and achieves what he personifies-“to be circumspect, prudent and to be perseveringly diligent as a scholar.-[to be able] to enlighten the politicised foundations of Philippine Studies.” This book hallmarks this author’s pen.
Feorillo Petronilo A. Demeterio III is a Full Professor of the Department of Filipino and the Director for Research and Advanced Studies of the College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University. He is the author of the book Ang mga Ideolohiyang Politikal ng Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines as well as of various essays on hermeneutics, cultural studies, and Filipino philosophy that are published in a number of local and international journals.
Foreword by Wilhelm M. Donko
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Intellectual Biography
Chapter III: Blumentritt’s Pre-Rizalian Period
On the Earthquakes of 1880
On Philippine Gold Mines
An Ethnography on the Filipino People
On Spanish Territorial Discoveries
On the Ancient Filipino Religion
On the Islands of Sulu
On Coal Deposits
An Uprising in Mindanao
General Observations on Blumentritt’s Pre-Rizalian Philippine Studies
Chapter IV: Blumentritt’s Rizalian Period
A Critique of Feced
On Immigration in the Philippines
Prologue to Rizal’s Annotation of Morga
A Population Estimate on the Various Philippine Tribes
On the Friars and Clerics
On the Morals of the Natives
On the Kiangans of Luzon
A Reaction to an Article Entitled “The Affairs of the Philippines Are in Vogue”
A Comparison between British and Spanish Colonizations
A Critique of an Anonymously Authored Essay
On the Friars and the Inferiority of the Filipinos
On Some Disgusting Statements about the Philippines
A Reaction to Pardo Bazan’s No lo Invento
On Weyler and Mindanao
On the Ocean Currents and Tides in Mindanao
A Reaction to Scheidnagel’s “Pansit”
On Weyler and Calamba
A Reaction to the Image of Uncle Romualdo
On Bustamante and Despujol
On the Maguindanaos
A Bibliographic Presentation of Non-Spanish Materials on the Philippines
On the Anti-Spanish Revolutions America
A Mythological Dictionary of the Philippines
A Critique of the Friars’ Exaggerated Reports on Their Glorious Contributions in the Colonization
On the Innate Superiority and Inferiority of Races
On the Language of the Agtas
General Observations on Blumentritt’s Rizalian Philippine Studies
Chapter V: Blumentritt’s Post-Rizalian Spanish Period
On Rizal
On the Philippine Revolution
On Japan and the Philippines
On the Separatist Ideology in the Spanish Colonies
Folk Psychology and the Philippine Problem
General Observations on Blumentritt’s Philippine Studies during His Post-Rizalian Spanish Period
Chapter VI: Blumentritt’s American Period
On the First Philippine Republic
On the American Colonial Rule in the Philippines
A Summary on Philippine Ethnography, History and Politics
General Observations on Blumentritt’s Philippine Studies during His American Period
Chapter VII: Conlcusion
Summation
Lessons for Contemporary Philippine Studies
Formal, Methodical and Theoretical Lessons
Material and Thematic Lessons
Pitfalls and Negative Lessons
Concluding Remarks
Recommendations
Appendix A: List of Blumentritt’s Writings about the Philippines
Appendix B: Classification of Blumentritt’s Pre-Rizalian Period Works Based on Cursory Analysis of Their Titles
Appendix C: Classification of Blumentritt’s Rizalian Period Works Based on Cursory Analysis of Their Titles
Appendix D: Classification of Blumentritt’s Post-Rizalian Spanish Period Works Based on Cursory Analysis of Their Titles
Appendix E: Classification of Blumentritt’s American Period Works Based on Cursory Analysis of Their Titles
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