THESIS ABSTRACT

1. TITLE: Rethinking
Critique

Igorot

Identity:

Genealogical

Total Number of Pages

118
Total Number of Text
104
2. AUTHOR: Marie Frances Denise D. Calde
3. DEGREE: Master of Arts in Philosophy
4. TYPE OF DOCUMENT: Unpublished Thesis
5. ACCREDITING INSTITUTIONS:
Department of Philosophy
Saint Louis University
Bonifacio Street, Baguio City
Commission on Higher Education
La Trinidad, Benguet
6. Keywords:
Genealogy, History, Identity, Igorot,
Knowledge,
Power,
Postcolonialism,
Social Construction,
7. Abstract
The researcher conducted this study to determine the
existent mockery and prejudice extended to the igorots
grounded
on
the
initial
response
that
they
possess
eccentricity or that their culture belong to a different level
of formation or civilization.
To answer why said matter exist, the researcher used
Foucaults genealogical critique and identified that the
negative connotation of the word igorot is a colonial
construct. This matter as it persists in the society fashion

the peoples perspective of who an igorot is that more often

than not results to prejudice and bashing of character. As the
identity has been standardized as that which do not partake to
the standard of non-igorot, it appears that there exist a
criteria to which the igorot must confer, a universal and
immutable which are not igorot.
Not only that Foucaults genealogical critique would
center on standards but also on how standards are used as
concealed mechanisms of power as a way of maintaining
subjection and domination. Since the igorots accordingly do
not possess the upright mechanisms to govern themelves, then
they needed to be governed or left subjugated. The negative
connotation of the word that homogenizes their character is
transformed as a strategy to keep them overpowered.
With all of the foregoing, the study indicated a
rethinking of the igorot identity which means looking further
into the recesses of the igorots experiences, that there is
more than merely recasting their imposed derogated character.