image: The June 2025 issue of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints features a range of scholarly articles and book reviews exploring indigenous healing traditions, state welfare misdiagnoses, and the evolving landscape of Philippine Studies in China. Highlights include Armand Nicod-am Camhol’s study on the multifunctionality of the bulul, Marie Bembie A. Girado’s critical analysis of conditional cash transfers among the Palaw’an, and Ma Yuchen’s cross-border perspective on Philippine Studies. The volume also reviews recent publications on indigeneity, colonial religious devotion, conflict in the Bangsamoro, Filipino leadership, and the historical impact of typhoons. Access is available via the Philippine Studies website, Ateneo’s Rizal Library E-Resources, Project Muse, JSTOR, and Archium Ateneo.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor’s Introduction (135–36)
Michael D. Pante
Articles
Beyond the Mythical God Label: Healing and Multifunctionality in the Bulul (137–67)
Armand Nicod-am Camhol
State Misdiagnosis of Poverty: The Conditional Cash Transfer Experience of the Palaw’an People (169–209)
Marie Bembie A. Girado
Philippine Studies in China: Background, Achievements, and Opportunities Through the Perspective of Country and Region Studies (211–42)
Ma Yuchen
Book Reviews
Mark Dizon’s Reciprocal Mobilities: Indigeneity and Imperialism in an Eighteenth-Century Philippine Borderland (243–46)
Review Author: Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio
Francisco J. Lara Jr. and Nikki Philline C. de la Rosa, eds. Conflict’s Long Game: A Decade of Violence in the Bangsamoro (247–49)
Review Author: Jose Mikhail Perez
Christina H. Lee’s Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines Under Early Spanish Rule (250–52)
Review Author: Paul A. Dumol
Resil B. Mojares’s Enigmatic Objects: Notes Towards a History of the Museum in the Philippines (253–56)
Review Author: Sheldon Ives Go Agaton
Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Ma. Regina M. Hechanova, Edna P. Franco, and Emerald Jay D. Ilac, eds. Filipino Leadership: Stories and Science (257–62)
Review Author: Nerisa N. Paladan
James Francis Warren’s Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines (262–65)
Review Author: Ma. Luisa de Leon-Bolinao
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About the Journal
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas. The journal is published quarterly by the Ateneo de Manila University through the Rosita G. Leong School of Social Sciences.