[Recording] “What Strange Woman is Here?”: Laura Benedict’s Fieldwork among the Bagobos of the Southern Philippines, 1906 – 1908

This talk by Juan Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian History at UW-Madison, discusses the early history of anthropology in the American colonial Philippines. He does so by contextualizing anthropologist Laura Benedict’s fieldwork praxis through her gendered experiences of research, and examining the way that the Bagobos of Mindanao invited, of their own volition, Benedict’s participation in their cultural and religious life.