mapping future course stateofthe artin pangasinan studies（映射未来局势artin pangasinan研究）.docVIP

Reclaiming Identity, Mapping the Future: Pangasinan Studies in Theory and Praxis Erwin S. Fernandez( Abstract The conceptualization of Pangasinan studies as ethnic/area studies under Philippine studies had to be mapped to be able to define its research contours and terrain. Prior to doing that, it is absolutely necessary for Pangasinan scholars to lay down the epistemic foundations of Pangasinan studies. A critical assessment on the past and present production of knowledge, which falls under Pangasinan studies, is pertinent and important in charting the directions of future researches. This paper shall contribute toward understanding the possible epistemic nature and origins of Pangasinan studies as it shall appraise the past and current researches on Pangasinan. By doing so, it shall conclude by defining and prescribing the prospective course to be taken by Pangasinan scholars in the development of Pangasinan studies. Introduction There is a felt need to revitalize the study and appreciation of Pangasinan heritage and culture. Globalization makes the world smaller yet even more complex than what we imagine, a global village in the words of Marshall McLuhan, but it poses serious challenges to marginalized cultures as Westernization or Americanization (others call it McDonaldization) is making its way virtually unopposed. As for Pangasinan culture, the language though alive as reflected in oral and printed literature had been long suffering from neglect and abandonment in the eyes of doomsayers. It is easy for others to dismiss this but there is a grain of truth to it. The only way to assess the growth and decline, development and underdevelopment of Pangasinan literature is to survey the terrain of Pangasinan studies (hereafter referred to as PnS) as seen in the knowledge production about Pangasinan culture, history, education, linguistics, science and technology. Pangasinan literature here means the entire corpus of writing on any aspect of Pangasinan