Isabelo's Archive

Isabelo's Archive reenacts El Folk-Lore Filipino (1889), Isabelo de los Reyes's eccentric but groundbreaking attempt to build an "archive" of popular knowledge in the Philippines. Inspired by Isabelo's ghostly project, this collection mixes essays, vignettes, extracts, and notes on Philippine history and culture... Blending the literary and the academic, wondrously diverse in its range, it has many gems to offer the reader. Isabelo’s Archive reenacts El Folk-Lore Filipino (1889), Isabelo de los Reyes’s eccentric but groundbreaking attempt to build an “archive” of popular knowledge in the Philippines. Inspired by Isabelo’s ghostly project, this collection mixes essays, vignettes, extracts, and notes on Philippine history and culture... Blending the literary and the academic, wondrously diverse in its range, it has many gems to offer the reader.