Download or read book Isabelo’s Archive written by Resil B. Mojares and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.