#bugkalot

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1978 Philippines, Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, Ilongot (Bugkalot) tribe, family in a long house

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Elsewhere on the mountains of Nueva Viscaya

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35, 36 and 37! :>

35. Which of the players have you known about the longest pre qsmp time?

- DanTDM was my whole childhood, I became fluent in English at a young age because of watching him so much lmao. (<- watched ALL his videos in his channel when they were a kid)

36. How many languages do you speak? Which ones?

- I speak two! English and Filipino. I do speak two dialects in Filipino; Tagalog and Ilocano, and only understand a third dialect; Bugkalot.

37. Has the qsmp inspired you to learn new languages? If so, which ones and what have you done to do that so far?

- Yes! Well, at first it helped me be motivated to keep up learning German in Duolingo, but now I'm also learning Portugese :D I'm only at my fourth day learning Portugese tho, so I've got a long way to go ^-^

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The Philippines, 1978

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Bugkalot people, Nueva Vizcaya

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Army extends support to IP community in Aurora

Army extends support to IP community in Aurora

BALER, Aurora – Government troops have extended support to the indigenous people (IP) community in Barangay Bayanihan, Maria Aurora town in Aurora Province as part of the programs of the Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC).

In partnership with the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in Aurora, the troops of the Army’s 91st Infantry (Sinagtala) Battalion planted some 100 coconut saplings in the IP community on Wednesday to provide sustainable livelihood to the Bugkalot tribe and at the same time increase the province’s coconut production.

Lt. Col. Reandrew P. Rubio, commander of the 91IB, said on Thursday the activity was in line with the unit’s sustainment efforts in areas cleared from the communist terrorist group.

“This activity is part of the whole-of-nation approach to end local communist armed conflict wherein the PCA gives incentives under the Poverty Reduction, Livelihood, and Employment Cluster (PRLEC). Rest assured that the 91IB is doing its best effort to help our tribal groups in the province of Aurora which aims to prioritize and harmonize the delivery of basic services and social development packages of the government. We are partners for peace and development,” Rubio said.

NCIP Aurora Representative Dhelsie Joy Pineda thanked the 91IB for supporting the Bugkalot tribe.

“We appreciate the efforts of the 91IB in the peace and developments. This is one way of bringing the message of peace. Let us support our government,” Pineda said.

Acting Barangay Bayanihan chairman Isaias E. Caanawan likewise thanked the government for the continuous efforts to help the IP community.

“Malaking tulong po ito sa aming mga katutubo at nawa ay magpatuloy pa yung ganitong gawain para sa aming mga kababayan dito sa Bayanihan (This is a big help to us and may this kind of activity continue for our townmates here in Bayanihan)” Caanawan said.

Meanwhile, Major General Andrew D. Costelo, commander of the Army’s 7th Infantry (Kaugnay) Division, lauded the efforts of 91IB troops as he thanked their partner stakeholders for the support to activities that benefit the IP community. (PNA) 

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Grief - Roberts & Cholbi

Paradigmatically, grief is the sense of having suffered an irrevocable loss of a nonfungible object -  typically a person - that was of great significance to the subject.

The subject was strongly attached to the object, and consequently, the loss seems to disorient the subject by, for example, calling into question his personal identity.

This is why we speak of grieving as a process, at the end of which the subject may have come to some adjusted sense of oneself.

Irrevocability

Usually, a sense of loss without hope. Subject does not try to bring them back.

The presence of hope might limit the scope of the irrevocable loss. (Interesting wording. It does not alternate with grief...) Christians do grieve for the loss of this life of the loved in the form that they were known in. But they also construe the loved one as retained for another life...

The Ilongots/Bugkalots - In contrast to Western “passive” grieving, partake in headhunting as a part of the grieving process.

Why is grief so paralyzing?

The consequent concern that arises out of the internal logic of the emotion: “An object of great significance is lost... therefore, I want it restored.” A wish that is impossible and rationally frustrated.

The person who tries to escape from grief through substances (drugs, etc.) or through therapy to “work out the emotion” is not the consequent concern of the emotion.

Cholbi - Finding the Good in Grief

Why is grief supposed to be “owed” to the dead, especially on the assumption that bodily death is the permanent end of that person’s existence? (Korsgaard has something to say on this, with the subject of Atemporality)

Should we envy or pity Meursault?

Arthur Kleinman: "Treating” grief with medications that “deprive death of its sting” would have the side effect of depriving us of a uniquely valuable experience.

Resistance to this view:

Grief is almost always painful

Grief is stressful

Often associated with adverse physical symptoms (insomnia, heart palpitations, chest pains)

How can grief be good for me? (the bereaved?)

There are some pains we value not because they are merely to be endured to bring a greater good (as in the case of a vaccination), nor because we experience simultaneous pleasure (the pain is unalloyed), but because pain constitutes a fundamental part of the activity.

e. g. distance running

If pain were not a part of running, it would be a different activity. Just as it’s senseless to say Romeo & Juliet’s tragic deaths should be removed from the play to make it a better play.

“Grief’s pains are good insofar as they occur within and are indispensable parts of an activity which is itself good or desirable in some way.”

Yet, how is it clear that grief fits into some larger good?

Grief is not a single state, but a complex set of states.

Why do we grieve for public figures with whom we did not have an intimate, bidirectional relationship with?

“[…]People for whom we are essentially strangers can be crucial to the stories we tell about ourselves. A musician who had no relationship with David Bowie might nevertheless have modeled her music or her aesthetic ideals on his work; an otherwise secular minded Jew might have been moved by Wiesel’s Holocaust memoirs to investigate his Jewish heritage; an American Muslim may look to Ali’s life for a picture of how to express his faith in a culture traditionally hostile to Islam.”

We are in identity-constituting relationships with strangers and intimates alike... what Korsgaard calls “practical identities.” To have an identity-constituting relationship with another is to conceptualize her not as merely shaping who one is but what one cares about.

In addition to losing the goods that person provided, we feel like we’ve lost ourselves. Our practical identity ruptures because we can no longer orient our identity around that deceased individual.

1) Grief is an important motivator for self-knowledge.

But how? Most of the time, our outlook on the world runs on autopilot. We develop habits that form our practical identities, but these practical identities tend to assume a background reality that is contingent on facts outside our control, that we don’t consider...

And when changes occur, they can jolt our evaluative systems. Making us place our practical identities under scrutiny.

2) Grief is an important source of self-knowledge.

Grief episodes contain many emotions, all of which are focused on the relationship one has with the deceased. Different emotions disclose different aspects of our personalities and practical identities. In experiencing anger, we are given hints as to what we regard as injurious or harmful to ourselves. In experiencing fear, we are given hints as to what we regard as threatening to ourselves.

However... an emotional reaction does not “wear its object on its face.” A child could feel anxiety at a parent’s death because the relationship she had with her mother was very secure. But it can also be because the parent didn’t provide security...  To know what this anxiety signifies requires interrogation of one’s own biography.

Grief is thus instrumentally valuable.

Moller - Love and Death

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KWF to launch 6 language monuments in June

#PHnews: KWF to launch 6 language monuments in June

MANILA – The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) is set to launch in different areas of the country, through its Bantayog-Wika project, six monuments representing indigenous languages. "Our goal is to launch those monuments before June this year," KWF translator and acting Bantayog-Wika project coordinator John Lerry Dungca said on Tuesday. He said KWF will launch a Bantayog-Wika monument in each of Camarines Sur province's Buhi municipality, Quirino province's Quirino State University, Nueva Vizcaya province's capitol, and Agusan del Norte province's Butuan City. The monuments will represent Buhinon, Bugkalot, Gaddang and Butuanon languages, he said. Dungca said also due for launch are a Bantayog-Wika monument in each of Bulacan province's Bulakan municipality and Metro Manila's Pasig City to represent variations of the Tagalog language. He noted both monuments will also honor Filipino writers Lope K. Santos and Pedro Serrano Laktaw who created the first intensive Filipino dictionary, respectively. KWF came up with its Bantayog-Wika project to further raise knowledge and awareness as well as promote the continued use of indigenous languages in the country. Languages become extinct if no longer used, KWF said. The agency targets installing and unveiling Bantayog-Wika monuments for each of the country's estimated 130 languages. About 39 of such languages are already endangered, KWF said. KWF has installed and unveiled 19 language monuments nationwide since the agency began its Bantayog-Wika project in 2017. Dungca noted National Commission for Culture and the Arts provided grants for fabricating and installing the six Bantayog-Wika monuments. The monuments in Bulacan and Quirino have been installed, he said. He said KWF is preparing to deliver and install the monument for Camarines Sur. "We're awaiting construction of pedestals upon which the other monuments will rest," he said. KWF earlier targeted the launch of the six monuments last year.

However, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic affected the Bantayog-Wika project, Dungca said. "That's why we re-scheduled the monuments' launching this year," he said. According to KWF, installation artist Luis 'Junyee' Yee, Jr. prepared the Bantayog-Wika monument design. KWF said Baybayin letters carved into the monument’s stainless steel body form several lines from Philippine hero Andres Bonifacio's poem "Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Bayan". Bantayog-Wika monuments are lighted from within so people can read those lines at night, KWF also said. The monuments are installed atop concrete pedestals with markers bearing information about languages these structures represent, it added. (PNA) 

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "KWF to launch 6 language monuments in June." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1128574 (accessed January 27, 2021 at 12:30AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "KWF to launch 6 language monuments in June." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1128574 (archived).

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Quirino launches ‘Sarukod ni Apo’

Quirino launches ‘Sarukod ni Apo’

CABARROGUIS, Quirino, Aug. 31 (PIA)–The Provincial Tourism Office here recently launched its newest cultural project aimed at preserving culture through  creating and recreating cultural items that depict the natural and cultural bounty of the province.

Kalaw headdress is worn only by a Bugkalot warrior

Funded by the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the project, entitled…

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Ammungan Festival 2016 Coffee Table Book

The word “ammungan” started to be popularized during the Ammungan Festivals conducted in 1989 through1996, which highlighted the culture of some identified ethnic groups like the Bugkalots, Gaddangs, Ikalahans/ Kalanguyas, Isinais, Iwaks, Ibalois, Kankana-eys, Ifugaos (distinctly classified as Ayangans/ Tuwalis) and with minor participation of other ethno-linguistic groups. The anniversary…

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1978 Philippines, Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, Ilongot (Bugkalot) tribe

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1978 Philippines, Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, Ilongot (Bugkalot) Tribe, family in a long house. Holott, a young boy sleeping

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1978 Philippines, Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, Ilongot (Bugkalot) Tribe, young boy fishing with a bow and arrow

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1978 Philippines, Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, Ilongot (Bugkalot) Tribe, family in a long house

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1978 Philippines, Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, Cagayan Valley, Ilongot (Bugkalot) tribe

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1978 Philippines, Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya, Cagayan Valley, Ilongot (Bugkalot) tribe