Dr. Cherubim A. Quizon
Dr. Cherubim A. Quizon (PhD, Anthropology, State University of New York) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. Her dissertation on the ikat cloth of the Bagobo of Southern Mindanao was based both on multi-sited fieldwork in the Davao and Bagobo museum collections in the United States and Europe. She is best known for her work on Bagobo and B’laan textiles in From a rainbow’s varied hue: Textiles of the Southern Philippines (UCLA-Fowler Museum, 1998) and the display of Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair (Philippine Studies, 2004). Her recent publications include a chapter on the significance of abaca in Southeast Asia and the Pacific in Paths of Origins: Austronesian Heritage (Art Post Asia, 2009), Bagobo cognitive categories of costume versus dress (Ethnology, 2007) and an article on Southern Mindanao in the Encyclopedia of World Dress, Volume 4: South Asia and Southeast Asia (forthcoming from Berg). quizonch@shu.edu
Paper (pdf): Of Beauty and Prowess: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Bagobo & Iban Ikat Textile Practice
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