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.

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.