I often give these anting-anting as memorable presents to departing diplomats. After the amused shock I explain how these artifa...

I often give these anting-anting as memorable presents to departing diplomats. After the amused shock I explain how these artifacts illustrate “indiogenization” as Kidlat Tahimik has rephrased indigenisation. How Pinoys made the foreign our own. Today, the Basilica of the Santo Nino de Cebu was declared a National Cultural Treasure. It preserves what is believed to be the very same image presented by Magellan to Humabon’s wife as a baptismal present in 1521 and was recovered by the 1565 Legazpi ...