Culture

LIKHAAN Literary Journal

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ah. LIKHAAN is a journal of the «Institute of Creative Writing» at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. For the year 2020, Rolando B. Tolentino has directed a special edition with texts coming out of the present pandemic. The range is wide: From angry poems, to a a short dramolet (“frontliner”) to a critical essay … Read more

Re-assembling dispersed treasures

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ah. Since January 2021, Philippine objects from museums all over the world can be viewed on a website called Mapping Philippine Material Culture. Most of these swords, fabrics, knifes – tools of everyday life or works of art – are usually invisible. For decades, they have been laying in the vaults of ethnographic museums. Many … Read more