Filipino Tattoo Culture with Cultural Tattoo Practitioner, Lane Wilcken
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2022
- Lane Wilcken is a scholar, cultural tattoo practitioner and advocate for the critically endangered practice of "batok" or cultural tattoos of the Philippines. He also has studied other related indigenous traditions of the Philippines and greater Pacific with over three decades of research and experience. His mother is from the Philippines and his father is of English and Scandinavian descent. Lane is the author of "Filipino Tattoos Ancient to Modern" and "The Forgotten Children of Maui." He is also a contributing writer to "Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory" and "Shamanic Transformations: True Stories of the Moment of Awakening," as well as several articles for various magazines and journals.
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AUSTRONESIAN PRIDE! ONE PEOPLE, MANY TRIBES.
I love Lane Wilcken, and also Virgil Mayor Apostal, both of whom helped me (through their books) to reconnect myself to my Filipino ancestry. WhennI was a child, my great grandmother, a third generation Filipina-American, was a medicine woman, with her sister, who told amazing stories. Our women had arranged marriages to men from the Islands, so we kept our identity through the generations. My mother’s generation was the first to marry American men. But I have followed in the footsteps of my grandmothers and aunts and have become the keeper of our culture. One of my bucket list items is getting a personalized batok from Lane. I told him my family history, and he will decide the design. Gotta make it to Vegas!
Protect lane at all costs
amen
Mestizo Ilocano. I apprecaite Lane for the work of the book which i have
Awesome Mr. Lane Wilcken!! I just learned a lot more of our ancient and traditional Filipino Cultural practices!! I agree with you that the move to "decolonize" tattooing enhances our true understanding of our identity... much of which we have lost through colonization. The Philippines is not only a beautiful, naturally endowed country. Because of its natural beauty, it must have had "beautiful' traditions and cuture too!! Please visit the Philippines again and again... and influence the great movement to rediscover our culture and enhance, nay complement, the next tourism boom... which will surely happen in the Philippines!!
Blessings to the internet for finding ways to learn about my culture. What are your suggestions on starting to learn more about Filipino culture
Aloha Visuals! There has been a huge push lately in Hawaii to make Filipino Culture a part of school curriculums. I can only share a suggestion that I do, I seek out elder family members and sit and talk story with them. If not a family member, an elder Filipino! Mahalo for supporting me and this show. I appreciate you! Aloha!
One can start by not calling it Filipino. Historically only those of Spanish blood born in our islands was called Filipino. Natives were referred to as indos. But we were never one united nation or people, but various tribes, and kingdoms. Indigenous people always identify by tribe/clan/village/chief etc. I’m all for the push to rename our motherland in an indigenous name, and not the name of the Spanish king that colonized us. I always cringe when I see fellow kababayans utter in unison: “pinoy pride” because it’s colonial mentality and brainwash. I do try to only refer to my maternal clan and tribe, sadly I often have to use “Filipino” because people are ignorant. Lane’s books on our tatau culture (4K years back in time), and our mythology and legends are a good start😁 Good luck, ingat ba😘
Excellent discussion! Thanks for putting this together!
Mahalo i Nui Loa, Mauru’uru meitei, and Maraming salamat po tlg for sharing this!
I’m so happy I found your podcast on RUclips! Just subscribed!
Aloha e Luvncrunch! I appreciate you for supporting! Mahalo nui!
BTW, Thank you very much Makani for this episode of Culturised!
Aloha Noel! Mahalo for supporting, I appreciate you! We hope to share more of our Filipino Culture! Stay tuned! Salamat Po
This is very interesting and such an eye opener for me
Amazing content!!! I learned so much. Thank you Culturised for putting this together! And thank you Lane for educating me, especially about finding out about your geneology before getting a tatttoo!! And tattoo placement! Wow. I am going to do much research now.
I'm from Manila but, my Pamilya hails from Ilo-Ilo and they speak the language of kinaray-a all I know of my mothers family is that the men in where she lives are mananabas.. Headhunters of the Japanese and Americans they fought.
Mahalo for sharing your family knowledge and supporting Culturised!
Proud of my kuya. Kaano nga agsublita idiay Pilipinas? Nasken a dumagas iti baro a balay ni Inay.
Kia ora! I'm actually looking for a copy of Lane Wilcjen's "The Forgotten Children of Maui: Filipino Myths, Tattoos, and Rituals of a Demigod." Does anyone know where to get it in the Philippine Market? It's quite difficult to buy anything from Amazon you see, and it would take quite some time for it to get here. I'm a Creative Writing student and I really need it badly as a source for my folklore inspired narrative I'm working on.
Raised in New Zealand, coming back to the Philippines was one of the most difficult experiences of life, often feeling othered and alienated with my peers. Never really a Kiwi, neither a Filipino despite the blood in my veins which says it so. I'm actually more drawn to Aotearoa than my supposed real home. Felt like intertwining both Polynesian and Philippine mythology would be an awesome way of connecting to my roots and of storytelling, especially regarding the tattoo culture of both worlds.
Cant wait to get a Visayan tattoo. Have been research 5 months now on design.
Where did you get that necklace? I want one
im filipino from illo illo, and adopted out of manilla. i live on the eastern shore of MD and work as a construction site technician. whenever i show up all to my sites, the hispanic guys see me and always greet me in spanish and im just like..... ummm... aloha, mi amigo... and do the little shaka gesture. white people always assumed im hawaiian because of my longer hair and darker complexion and im just tired of always correcting them that i just go with it now to the point that thats how i greet pretty much everyone. it wasnt until recently i found out the numorous similarities between the two cultures.
Not just the Philippines, but its all over Southeast Asia
Thank you for watching
how mad are you lol
@@Boondoxx They don't seem angry to me. I think they're just sharing the fact that tattooing is common in SEA.
Great. What if I’m not pacific?
When Lane spoke about being assimilated, it made me realize why I can’t fit in with full blooded Filipinos who grew up in a Filipino home. Because I was brought up assimilated or what some filipinos would call me, “white washed.”
Pangasinan. Son of Luzon ✊🏽
Look up Wang-Od, the last and oldest mambabatok.
How do you trace your Filipino genealogy 😅 I wouldn’t know where to start
Easiest way, in my opinion to start is have conversations with your parents, grandparents or elder family members! mahalo for watching!
@@makani9894 what if your ancestors assimilated to another culture and have passed away by now.
Take a dna test
You start with your Filipino last name. The Spaniards assigned last names alphabetically per province/region.
Where I come from, we call tattoos, patik.