SCI-ETHNOLOGY | Newly discovered water beetle named after Leni Robredo’s Angat Buhay NGO

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A new water beetle species was discovered and named after Angat Buhay, the poverty reduction program launched by the Office of the Vice President during former Vice President Leni Robredo’s time in office that was turned into a non-governmental organization when she stepped down.

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The beetle, named Anacaena angatbuhay, was discovered in the northern province of Ifugao by biology student Enrico Gerard Sanchez, thesis adviser Dr. Emmanuel Delocado, and co-adviser Prof. Dr. Hendrik Freitag from the Ateneo Biodiversity Research Laboratory under the Ateneo de Manila University’s biology department.

The publication was part of Sanchez’s undergraduate thesis. He carried out the research for it during the pandemic using an innovative lab-at-home system, the university website said.

“The authors said the species is named to honor the program’s outstanding and unparalleled service, especially during the pandemic… the species’ name is a nod to the countless Filipinos working for and with far-flung communities whose efforts were not widely recognized,” Ateneo’s website read.

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On July 1, Robredo ​​officially launched the Angat Buhay Foundation as a non-profit, registered under the name Angat Pinas Inc., to continue the work of the programs she established under the Office of the Vice President (OVP).

It is reportedly set to become the largest volunteer network in the country, leveraging the huge number of volunteers and supporters she amassed as part of the “pink movement” during the May 2022 presidential campaign.

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READ: It’s official: Former VP Robredo launches non-profit Angat Buhay.

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TRIVIA:

Ethnology

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEthnology (from the Greekἔθνοςethnos meaning ‘nation’)[1] is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare culturalsocial, or sociocultural anthropology).[2]

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Scientific discipline

Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct contact with the culture, ethnology takes the research that ethnographers have compiled and then compares and contrasts different cultures.

The term ethnologia (ethnology) is credited to Adam Franz Kollár (1718-1783) who used and defined it in his Historiae ivrisqve pvblici Regni Vngariae amoenitates published in Vienna in 1783.[3] as: “the science of nations and peoples, or, that study of learned men in which they inquire into the origins, languages, customs, and institutions of various nations, and finally into the fatherland and ancient seats, in order to be able better to judge the nations and peoples in their own times.”[4]

Kollár’s interest in linguistic and cultural diversity was aroused by the situation in his native multi-ethnic and multilingual Kingdom of Hungary and his roots among its Slovaks, and by the shifts that began to emerge after the gradual retreat of the Ottoman Empire in the more distant Balkans.[5]

Among the goals of ethnology have been the reconstruction of human history, and the formulation of cultural invariants, such as the incest taboo and culture change, and the formulation of generalizations about “human nature“, a concept which has been criticized since the 19th century by various philosophers (HegelMarxstructuralism, etc.). In some parts of the world, ethnology has developed along independent paths of investigation and pedagogical doctrine, with cultural anthropology becoming dominant especially in the United States, and social anthropology in Great Britain. The distinction between the three terms is increasingly blurry. Ethnology has been considered an academic field since the late 18th century, especially in Europe and is sometimes conceived of as any comparative study of human groups.

The 15th-century exploration of America by European explorers had an important role in formulating new notions of the Occident (the Western world), such as the notion of the “Other“. This term was used in conjunction with “savages”, which was either seen as a brutal barbarian, or alternatively, as the “noble savage“. Thus, civilization was opposed in a dualist manner to barbary, a classic opposition constitutive of the even more commonly shared ethnocentrism. The progress of ethnology, for example with Claude Lévi-Strauss‘s structural anthropology, led to the criticism of conceptions of a linear progress, or the pseudo-opposition between “societies with histories” and “societies without histories”, judged too dependent on a limited view of history as constituted by accumulative growth.

Lévi-Strauss often referred to Montaigne‘s essay on cannibalism as an early example of ethnology. Lévi-Strauss aimed, through a structural method, at discovering universal invariants in human society, chief among which he believed to be the incest taboo. However, the claims of such cultural universalism have been criticized by various 19th- and 20th-century social thinkers, including MarxNietzscheFoucaultDerridaAlthusser, and Deleuze.

The French school of ethnology was particularly significant for the development of the discipline, since the early 1950s. Important figures in this movement have included Lévi-StraussPaul RivetMarcel GriauleGermaine Dieterlen, and Jean Rouch.

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