Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

Reuben Ramas Cañete, Ph.D. (1966–2017)

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Professor, Assistant to the Dean for Research and Publications
Ph.D. in Philippine Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman
Room 205, Hall of Wisdom

Museum Studies • Visual anthropology • Cultural policy and political aesthetics • Intercultural studies • Contemporary Asian and diasporic cultures VIEW FULL PROFILE

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Philippine Studies, Tricollege, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2008
  • M.A. in Art History, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2002
  • BFA Fine Arts, Major in Painting, University of Santo Tomas, 1988

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Museum studies
  • Visual anthropology
  • Cultural policy and political aesthetics
  • Intercultural studies
  • Contemporary Asian and diasporic cultures

COURSES TAUGHT

  • PS 213 Filipino Intercultural Encounters
  • PS 215 Philippine Language and Culture
  • Art Stud 212 Aesthetics and Art Theories in Ancient & Modern Cultures
  • Art Stud 240 Art History
  • Art Stud 245 Readings in Aesthetics & Art Theory
  • Art Stud 250 Art Historiography
  • Art Stud 252 Seminar On Issues In Aesthetics And Art Theory
  • Art Stud 255 Seminar in Art Criticism
  • Art Stud 270 Philippine Art and Society
  • Art Stud 283 Arts Market & Audience;
  • Art Stud 284 Collections Management

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2016. "Performing Faith, Celebrating Plenty, Conserving Tradition: The Case of the Carabao Festival in Pulilan, Bulacan, Philippines." In The Folk Performing Arts in ASEAN, edited by Narupan Duangwises and Lowell D. Skar, 117–27. Bangkok: Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre. 

2015. “Ang Mabentang Lalaki: Komersiyal na Maskulinidad at Espasyong Pambenta sa Kalunsuran ng Pilipinas.” In Kritikal na Espasyo ng Kulturang Popular, edited by Rolando B. Tolentino & Gary C. Deviles, 362–76. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 

2015. "Keeping One's Own: State Cultural Policies in the Philippines." A.M. Post (115):44–47.

2014. "Sulu sojourns: Photo-ethnography and political discourses on four ethno-linguistic groups in the Sulu and Tawi-Tawi Archipelagoes." Philippine Political Science Journal 35 (2):136–57. Coauthored with MCM Santamaria and Marc San Valentin.

2014. “Selling Manliness: The Supermall and Male-Oriented Consumerism in Selected Philippine Clothing Stores.” In Communication and Media Theories, edited by Rolando Tolentino, Patrick Campos, Randy Jay Solis and Choy Pangilinan. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

2013. "A Preliminary Study of Ceiling Murals from Five Southeastern Cebu Churches." Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia 49 (1): 69–104. 

2011. “The Macho Machine: Male Sexual Commodification in Philippine Realist Film.” Positions 19:2(Fall) 347–364.

2011. “Ang Pagbenta sa Imahen ng Kalalakihan sa mga Piling Tindahang Pandamit sa Pilipinas.” Plaridel 8:1 (February) 35–50.

2011. “Reading/Writing the AAP: The Challenge of Writing Contemporary Art History.” In Suri Sining: the Art Studies Anthology, 43–53, edited by Reuben Ramas Cañete. Quezon City: Art Studies Foundation. 

2011. "[Re]New-ing Philippine Art History: New Art History, “Not New” Art History.“ In Between New and Not-New: Art History, Nationality, and the Globalist Subscription.” In Paths of Practice: Selected Papers from the Second Art Studies Conference, edited by Cecilia S. Sta. Maria, Patrick Flores, and Tessa Maria Guazon, 18–37. Quezon City: Art Studies Foundation. 

2009. “From the Sacred to the Profane: the Oblation Ritualized.” Humanities Diliman 6:1–2 (January-December) 1–20.

2009. “Sexscapes: the Spaces of Philippine Pornography.” Es.Pa.Syó: Journal of Philippine Architecture and Allied Arts 1:1 (December) 51–57.

2008. "Hispanic Strains in Philippine Modern and Contemporary Art." In More Hispanic than We Admit: Insights into Philippine Cultural History, edited by Isaac Donoso, 327–43. Quezon City: Vibal Foundation, Inc. 

2008. “The Connoisseurly Brotherhood: A Metacritique of Philippine Modernist Art Criticism from the Sixties to the Eighties.” In Philippine Studies: Have We Gone Beyond St. Louis?, 244–64, edited by Priscelina Patajo-Legasto. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. 

2007. “El Spoliarium with its Others: Philippine Art History and its Discursive Contentions.” Diliman Review 54:1–4, 20–43.

2007. “Re-envisioning the Macho: Masculinity in Philippine Visual Culture.” Kyoto Journal Unbound: Gender in Asia Online 64 January. 

Books

2016. Amadeo Y. Manalada: Telling Tadhana. Manila: Saga Publishing. 

2015. Amadeo Manalad: Drawing a Saga. Manila: Saga Publishing.

2014. Erewhon Arts 2013-2014. Quezon City: Erewhon Arts Center. 

2014. Masculinity, Media, and Their Publics in the Philippines: Selected Essays. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

2012. Sacrificial Bodies: The Oblation and the Political Aesthetics of Masculine Representations in Philippine Visual Cultures. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

2012. Classic Sansó. San Juan City: Galerie Joaquin. 

2012. Art and Its Contexts: Essays, Reviews, and Interviews on Philippine Art. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House

2011. Sansó Moderno. San Juan City: Galerie Joaquin.

2011. The Global Paisano: Manuel Baldemor’s Folk Modernist Vision. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House

2011. Suri Sining: The Art Studies Anthology (editor). Quezon City: Art Studies Foundation.

2011. Pulilan: The Blessed Land. Pulilan, Bulacan: Jefarca Arts and Historical Society, Inc.,

2009. Federico Aguilar Alcuaz: The Landscapes. San Juan: Galerie Joaquin

2007. Homecoming: the Buncio Collection of Philippine Art. Quezon City: Artist’s Guild of the Philippines, 2007.

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