Safeguarding Pabalat-Wrapped Pastillas in the Philippines: Problems and Possibilities of Community Participation

• Main Author: Gonzalez, Patricia
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Intangible heritage; community participation; heritage as process; cultural production; identity
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol5/iss2/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/socialtransformations/article/1127/viewcontent/ST_205.2_203_20Article_20__20Gonzalez.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article describes the Philippine foodway and craft form of pabalat-wrapped pastillas by examining the different communities involved in its practice and preservation. It analyzes how the participatory framework reshapes the authorized heritage discourse and argues for a more pragmatic conceptua...