Research and publications on the Philippines

The department possesses an expertise on Muslims in the Philippines and a focus on Mindanao-Sulu as a region.

Keen on developing research on, and in partnership with, the Philippines, the Austronesian section welcome short-term post-doctorate and guest-researchers (non-stipendiary).

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Elsa Clavé(elsa.clave"AT"uni-hamburg.de).

Publications

Prof. Dr. Jan van der Putten

All publications of Prof. Dr. Jan van der Putten can be found at the following link:

• https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/soa/personen/putten.html

JP Dr. Elsa Clavé

• [in press, 2025] "Remembering and representing Islam in The Philippines. Discussing collective and cultural memory", in Jocelyn Martin & Joyce Arriola (ed), Handbook of Memory studies in the Philippines, Leiden: Brill.
• [in press, 2025] "Religion and memory. Muslim shrines and palimpsestic memory in insular Southeast Asia", in Quan Tran and Elsa Clavé (ed), Memory Studies in Southeast Asia. A Handbook, Leiden, Brill.
• [in press] "Mona Lohanda" (Indonesian historian); "Encarnación Alzona" (Filipina historian); "Zeus Salazar" (Filipino historian; written with Adonis Elumbre), in N. Kouamé et A. Michel (dir.), Encyclopédie des historiographies Afriques, Amériques, Asies. Volume 2.
• [in press] "A long journey in Borneo: James Brooke’s journals and letters", in Judith E. Bosnak & Rick Honings (ed.), The Malay Archipelago through Travellers’ Eyes (1800-1900), Singapore: NUS Press.
• 2024. "Dressing up the monarch: representations of authority in the Sulu sultanate royal tradition (18th- 21st)", Indonesia and the Malay World 152, 76-96.
• 2022. L’islamisation du Sud philippin 15e-20e. Une histoire sociale et culturelle des sultanats, Paris : EFEO, collection Monographies. Reviews: https://journals.openedition.org/moussons/10215#ftn2; https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/3144.
• 2022. with Arlo Griffiths "The Laguna Copper Plate. 10-th c. Luzon, Java and the Malay World", Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 70 (2), 167–242.
• 2022. "Numismatic in insular Southeast Asia", Survey of Numismatic Research 2014-2019.
• 2020. "Sources pour l’histoire de l’islamisation des Philippines", "La plaque de Laguna", "Sarsila/Tarsila" in N. Kouamé, E.P. Meyer et A. Viguier (dir.), Encyclopédie des historiographies: Afriques, Amériques, Asies. Volume 1: Sources et genres historiques, Paris: Presses de l’INALCO. https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/21819.
• 2019. "Panorama des études philippines en Europe. Reflexions sur les dynamiques actuelles", Archipel 98, 35-48.
• 2018. "On the Footsteps of Islam in the Philippines: Islamic Epigraphy, Chinese Trade and Exchange Networks in Southeast Asia", in I. Donoso (ed.), More Islamic than we Admit, Manila : Vibal Foundation, 105-122.
• 2015. "Lignées et légitimité au sein du sultanat de Magindanao, Philippines, XVIe– XVIIe", Péninsule 71, 235-256.
• 2014. "Goûter les Philippines…à Sulu", Special issue on Food in Southeast Asia, Lettre de l’Association francaise pour la recherche en Asie du Sud-est, Spring 2014, 9-11.
• 2013. "Historiennes philippines", "Femmes journalistes aux Philippines", in Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices, Paris : Des femmes.
• 2009. "Sainteté et Islam à Sulu", Lettre de l’Association francaise pour la recherche en Asie du Sud-est, Printemps 2009, 15-17.

Translations (Filipino–English/French):

• 2023. "La vie rêvée", "Cette chose-là…" (with Elisabeth Luquin) in Les voix de l’exil (Malaisie). Poèmes de migrants. Etienne Naveau and Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux (ed.), Editions Arkuiris.
• 2022. "The Three Kings" (with Judy Freya Sibayan) [script], Southeast Asia of Now. Direction in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Autumn 2022.

Adonis Elumbre (Ph.D. Candidate)

• [in press] "Philippine Historiography." In N. Kouamé and A. Michel (eds.), Encyclopédie des historiographies Afriques, Amériques, Asies. Volume 2. Paris: Presses de l’Inalco.
• 2020. "Discursive Experiments in Vernacularizing International Studies in the Philippines." In F.A. Cruz and N.M. Adiong (eds.), International Studies in the Philippines: Mapping New Frontiers in Theory and Practice. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2020.

Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio and Myfel D. Paluga (Program Associates)

• 2023. "The anthropological signification of the 'Man with No Breath' in Visayas and Mindanao epics", South East Asia Research, 31(3), 300–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2023.2234820.
• 2023. "Patterns of Panow: Dimensions of Mobility among the Pantaron Manobo", Leiden University. https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-output/social-and-behavioural-sciences/patterns-of-panow-dimensions-of-mobility-among-the-pantaron-manobo.
• 2023. "An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines", South East Asia Research, 31(3), 324–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2023.2233896.
• Paluga M.D. (Editor). 2016. Mapping Sago: Anthropological, Biophysical, and Economic Aspects. Davao City, Philippines: BANWA Publications, University of the Philippines Mindanao.
• Ragragio, A.M.M. 2012. Archaeology and Emerging Kabikolan. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.