Myfel Paluga
- Name
- M.D. Paluga
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3451
- m.d.paluga@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Short CV
Myfel D. Paluga is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences in University of the Philippines-Mindanao. He has a BA in History (cum laude) from Mindanao State University and an MA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He most recently edited a monograph on Philippine palms entitled Mapping Sago: Anthropological, Biophysical and Economic Aspects (University of the Philippines Mindanao, 2016) and co-authored (with Ramon Guillermo, Maricor Soriano, and Vernon Totanes) a book on ancient Philippine scripts entitled 3 Baybayin Studies (University of the Philippines, 2017).
He is presently doing a community-assisted collaborative work on indigenous knowledge and the Man-oloron and Tolalang epics of the highland Pantaron Manobos of southern Philippines. Prior to this, his main researches were on the ethology of Philippine macaques and human-macaque relations in a millenarian community on Mt. Apo (Philippines). Under the Asian Public Intellectuals fellowship of the Nippon Foundation (Japan), he has expanded this theme on human-animal relations in various sites of Thailand and Indonesia (2006) and also participated in the three-year, cross-country collaborative project on “Human-Ecological Balance in Asia” (2009-2012). He served as chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences (University of the Philippines in Mindanao) and has also taught at the Mindanao State University-General Santos City. He sits on the Board of Trustees of a Davao-based indigenous peoples school system, the Salugpungan Ta Tanu Igkanugon Community Learning Center.
Supervisors
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Guillermo R., Paluga M.D., Soriano M. & Totanes V.R. (2017), 3 Baybayin Studies. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.
- Ragragio A.M. & Paluga M.D. (2016), For really it is only pounded wood: Ethnohistory of Sago in the Philippines from the Precolonial Period to the Twentieth Century. In: Paluga M.D. (Ed.), Mapping Sago: Anthropological, Biophysical, and Economic Aspects. Davao City, Philippines: BANWA Publications, University of the Philippines Mindanao. 25-56.
- Paluga M.D. (2016), The Wet and the Dry Methods: Indigenous Technological Innovations in Palm Starch Extraction in the Central Philippines. In: Paluga M.D. (Ed.), Mapping Sago: Anthropological, Biophysical, and Economic Aspects. Davao City, Philippines: BANWA Publications, University of the Philippines Mindanao. 57-68.
- Paluga M.D., Ragragio A.M.M., Ragragio E. & Moran A. (2016), Conclusion. Popularizing and Advocating Sago (and Other Native Plants). In: Paluga M.D. (Ed.), Mapping Sago: Anthropological, Biophysical, and Economic Aspects. Davao City, Philippines: BANWA Publications, University of the Philippines Mindanao. 169-175.
- Paluga M.D., Ragragio A.M., Bonghanoy M.N. & Moran A.G. (2016), Inflorescence: Mapping the Development of Interdisciplinal Studies on the Sago Palm in the University of the Philippines. In: Paluga M.D. (Ed.), Mapping Sago: Anthropological, Biophysical, and Economic Aspects. Davao City, Philippines: BANWA Publications, University of the Philippines Mindanao.