Locating the Ilokano Baglan in the Gender and Sexuality Continuum

• Main Author: Agcaoili, Aurelio Solver
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: baglan; sexual dimorphism; gender and sexuality continuum; ritual healing; Native epistemology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol27/iss1/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1010/viewcontent/01_20Agcaoili_20v4.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The article is an attempt to recover the baglan tradition of ritual healing among the Ilokano people. Currently, only pejorative comments exist about this baglan tradition whose practices represent the continuum of sex, sexuality, and gender among these groups of people in the Northern Philippines....