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Felipe Landa Jocano

Felipe Landa Jocano, a Filipino anthropologist, was behind the development of the Core Population Theory - otherwise known as the Evolution Theory - and one of the first to question Beyer’sWave Migration Theory.

Jocano was born on 5th February 1930 in Cabatuan, Iloilo. After completing public school, Jocano ran away to Manila and graduated from the Arellano High School. He then attended the Central Philippine University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957.

After returning to Iloilo, Jocano began to develop an interest in folklore, which led him to partner with Robert Fox. Fox was an anthropologist at the National Museum of the Philippines at the time he met Jocano, and managed to secure Jocano a job in the museum as a research aid.

Jocano soon left and used a study grant to earn a master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1962. He decided to take up a teaching position at the university and then achieved a PhD in Anthropology. However, he was drawn back to the Philippine by the offer of a post at the University of th

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Dr. Felipe Landa Jocano

March 21, 2013

Born in Cabatuan Iloilo City,February 5, 1930, the son of a farmer Eusibio Jocano and Anastacia Landa.”Pepe” as his family calls him is the 9^th of eleven children.In his childhood he attended local public school.He finished his secondary education at Arellano High School,Manila.He then returned to Iloilo to pursue his college studies at Central Phillipine University,Iloilo City as a work student,Dr.Jocano has engaged in field researches on various Philippine linguistic groups.Dr. Jocano is married to Adria Payad and they have 2 children,Felipe Jr. and Elizabeth.

Dr.Jocano’s experience as a writer,started in 1947,when he became a staff member of Manila Chronicle.He was a columnist of Veritas (A Catholic weekly paper)in 1955-58;a contributing editor of Philippine Geographical Journal (Manila),1969;editorial representative(advisory council) Sociological Abstract (New York),1968 and correspondant,International Social Science Journal(Paris,UNESCO),1971.He has published numerous articles in professional journals and among his

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F. Landa Jocano

Filipino Prehistory: Rediscovering Precolonial Heritage (Anthropology of the Filipino People, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions

Filipino Value System: A Cultural Definition (Anthropology of the Filipino People, #4)

4.03 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2008

Slum as a Way of Life

4.27 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions

Filipino Social Organization: Traditional Kinship and Family Organization (Anthropology of the Filipino People, #3)

3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions

Filipino Indigenous Ethnic Communities: Patterns, Variations, and Typologies (Anthropology of the Filipino People, #2)

3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1998

Filipino Worldview: Ethnography of Local Knowledge (Anthropology of the Filipino People, #5)

3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2001

Folk Medicine In A Philippine Municipality
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4.39 avg rating — 18 r