Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader

For Ateneo de Manila University Press

Edited by Jose Jowel Canuday and Joselito Sescon

“This volume is a landmark in studies of Mindanao, taking its subject in the broadest possible context. Massively documented, with almost three dozen individual substantive chapters, it will serve as an invaluable reference for those undertaking almost any inquiry into the southern Philippines. Ranging from first-person narratives to dense chapters with tables full of numbers, many different styles are used. Often innovative, authors try to avoid a Manila-centric gaze and instead focus on the particularities of an incredibly variegated landscape of peoples, languages, economies, and cultures. In this light, the authors do not speak with one voice but rather allow a serious reader to see a range of viewpoints from Mindanao archipelago." - Steven Rood, author of The Philippines: What Everyone Needs to Know

"In the past, academics used the absence of a comprehensive text as an excuse for not teaching a course on Mindanao. This does not hold water anymore. Jose Canuday and Joselito Sescon organized and edited a volume of the best works of Mindanao's top academics, ideologues, and public intellectuals. It is multi-disciplinary, with authors from different generations, and covers the first-ever overview of Mindanao's rich religious traditions. Canuday and Sescon produced a fine collection." - Patricio N. Abinales, author of Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State

Jose Jowel Canuday is associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ateneo de Manila University.

Joselito Sescon is assistant professor at the Department of Economics and associate director for research at the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University.