‘De estatura regular’: Height and Filipino bodily representations in the Spanish colonial period (1521-1898)

• Main Author: Lasco, Gideon
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: height; colonialism; racial science; historical anthropology; medical history; Development Studies; Race and Ethnicity; Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/60; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/752536
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article seeks to contribute to the "history of height" in the Philippines by looking at Filipino bodily representations and height differences during the Spanish colonial period. From Pigafetta's account onward, European chroniclers typically described Indios (natives) as having...