Here are a few books you can look at.
– Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology by E.J.R. David
– The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons by Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel
– Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott
– Way of the Ancient Healer: Sacred Teachings from the Philippine Ancestral Traditions by Virgil Mayor Apostol
– Filipino Tattoos: Ancient to Modern by Lane Wilcken
– Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous by Leny Mendoza Strobel & Perla Daly
– Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM by J. Neil C. Garcia.
– Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 by Stuart Creighton Miller
– An Introduction to Baybayin by Christian Cabuay
That’s just a list I can think of at the top of my head.
And to read information from primary sources (mainly to do with pre-colonial times and at the very early days of the Spaniards arrival where our indigenous cultures, practices, customs, etc. didn’t die out yet) online you can look at a list I posted months back . Those primary sources are from the writings of Pigafetta, Morga, Loarca, Legazpi, Plasencia, Salazar, Chirino, Alcina, etc.
If you want to browse through a collection of books though in history I’d suggest looking through Arkipelago, the Filipin@ Bookstore (which is located at the Bayanihan Community Center in San Francisco, CA) at their website here. You can actually buy Barangay by William Henry Scott (which I highly recommend when starting out on learning about our indigenous selves and pre-colonial times) on there for like $30.
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