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    Filipino Worldview 1 Introduction

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    Jocano introduces his study of the Filipino worldview, which focuses on how Filipinos perceive and respond to their surrounding world. He defines worldview as how a people view the universe and discusses how the Filipino worldview relates to Filipino culture. Central to culture is shared knowledge consisting of abstract concepts that are expressed through material objects, language, religion, and customary practices. Jocano conducted field research in rural communities through participant observation and interviews to gather data on traditional beliefs, retaining native terms to preserve local meanings. While using English reaches a wider audience, it risks changing the interpretation of local concepts.

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    Jocano introduces his study of the Filipino worldview, which focuses on how Filipinos perceive and respond to their surrounding world. He defines worldview as how a people view the universe and discusses how the Filipino worldview relates to Filipino culture. Central to culture is shared knowledge consisting of abstract concepts that are expressed through material objects, language, religion, and customary practices. Jocano conducted field research in rural communities through participant observation and interviews to gather data on traditional beliefs, retaining native terms to preserve local meanings. While using English reaches a wider audience, it risks changing the interpretation of local concepts.

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    Jocano introduces his study of the Filipino worldview, which focuses on how Filipinos perceive and respond to their surrounding world. He defines worldview as how a people view the universe and discusses how the Filipino worldview relates to Filipino culture. Central to culture is shared knowledge consisting of abstract concepts that are expressed through material objects, language, religion, and customary practices. Jocano conducted field research in rural communities through participant observation and interviews to gather data on traditional beliefs, retaining native terms to preserve local meanings. While using English reaches a wider audience, it risks changing the interpretation of local concepts.

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    PA104 TFE

    FILIPINO WORLD: Ethnography of Local Knowledge F. Landa Jocano


    Introduction
    In Jocanos introduction he said that the study of the Filipino Worldview
    has not received full attention yet. He stressed the need to go beyond the
    concept of worldview as arts and humanities to one that focuses on how Filipinos
    perceive their surrounding world, what this world means to them and how they
    respond or adapt to it. How these concepts and meanings of the universe affect
    Filipino way of life. He defined worldview way a people characteristically look
    upon the universe. The way Filipinos look and the way they respond to our
    surrounding world pave the way to highlight the local knowledge of the universe.
    This knowledge includes the concept of nature, society and the self. Together,
    these concepts, make up and define the way of life we call culture.
    He discussed and introduced the notion of the Filipino worldview in
    relation to our culture. He explained that the world view is the essence of our way
    of life. He gave various definition of culture and from those definitions he derived
    that central to the concept of culture is the idea of a shared knowledge. This
    knowledge consisting of abstract concepts are made manifest as objective reality
    by associating it with concrete material objects. He concluded therefore, a
    worldview to be understood properly, it must be seen, evaluated, and appreciated
    in its cultural context. He also relates worldview in the context of language as a
    bearer of culture and means and medium of meaning and expression. There is
    an identification of material things before one can put meaning into. He also
    pointed out that seeing is cultural. He also explained that we communicate our
    image of the world through religion, especially in religious rituals and ceremonies.
    He explained that in celebrating or performing a simple religious rite, any object
    is transformed from utilitarian and secular to religious and sacred in societys
    belief system. Customary practices however, are actually rites of interaction.
    They constitute another set of observable behavior that makes explicit the
    peoples view. The studys data is mostly derived from their field research in rural

    sectors of Filipino society as focus of this study because many of the traditional
    belief are still intact. The data gathered are from lengthened residence and
    participant observation in different communities as well as interviews. They
    retained many native terms to keep the original meaning and context of local
    context. The use of the English language is to reach a wider audience.
    Jocanos study of the Filipino worldview is very dynamic and in his
    introduction he gave the interrelation of our worldview in different abstract
    concepts. Concepts that are very close to us such us language, religious
    practices and customary practices. He also gave sufficient explanation and
    examples of these abstract concepts. I agree to the use of native language to
    preserve the meaning and context of the local concepts. However, I think by
    using the English language, it may change the interpretation of the local concept
    being explained.

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