Kapampangan research journal out
THE history of the southern towns of Tarlac that used to be part of Pampanga Province and have remained within the Kapampangan-speaking region is the focus of the latest issue of Alaya: The Kapampangan Research Journal, which is now off the press.
Published by the Holy Angel University Center for Kapampangan Studies, the research journal is edited by Doctor Lino Dizon, one of the Center’s consultants and this year’s recipient of a Fulbright scholarship at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.
The fifth edition of the research journal features, among others, articles on the Augustinian Recollects’ missions in Upper Pampanga, toponomy and historical archaeology along the Tarlac-Pampanga border, the native secular clergy around 1771-1827, the early religious protest movements in Tarlac, and many more.
Dr. Dizon “masterfully navigates through the events and people in his essays with the uneasy yet encompassing and incisive mindset of a seasoned and learned scholar,” wrote Dr. Eduardo Tadem of UP, who served as guest editor for the issue.
The journal also contains reviews and commentaries, including those of former Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino chair Doctor Ricardo Nolasco and the Center’s resident archaeologist Joel Mallari.
The journal is available at the Center for Kapampangan Studies and selected bookstores in Metro-Manila.
For inquiries, call Myra at (045) 888 8691 loc. 1312 or email at kapampangancenter@yahoo.com or rtantingco@hau.edu.ph. (Press Release)