Analyn V. Salvador-Amores
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology
College of Social Sciences
Academic Background
DPhil (PhD) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University, 2011
MPhil in Social Anthropology, Oxford University, 2008
MA in Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2002
BA in Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1995
Visiting Researcher, Richard Gilder Graduate School, Collections Study Grant
Program, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH, New York)
March-April 2019
Visiting Scholar, ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine
Collections at theUniversity of Michigan, June-July 2023
Research Interests
Anthropology of the body, non-Western aesthetics, material culture, endangered cultures, ethnographic museums, Indigenous peoples, and colonial photography in the Philippine Cordillera. Regional interest in Southeast Asia and the Philippines, specifically in ethnic communities in Northern Luzon: Bontoc, Ibaloy, Ifugao, Itneg, and Kalinga.
Publications
Selected Publications
“From Museums to the Field: Fieldwork in German Museums and Digital Repatriation of Ethnographic Artifacts from Northern Luzon” in Hunting for Artifacts: 19th Century German Travelers in the Luzon Cordillera” in D. Tolentino, Jr. (ed). Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 2025 (10-63).
Becoming a Mumbaki: Ritual Change and Continuity in Contemporary Ifugao Society (2024). Co-authored with Marlon Martin. Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio.
“Mathematical Symmetries of Binakol Textiles” De Las Peñas, M.L.A., Salvador- Amores, A.V., Tomenes, M.D. and Taganap, E. C. (2024). Symmetry: Culture and Science, 35(4): 429-440.
“Cordillera Cultural Revival” in Acabado, S., Camposano, S. and Docot, D. (eds) Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies. (2023) Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, pp. 162-181.
“Understanding the Materiality of Death Rituals in Bontoc Society, Northern Philippines,” The Cordillera Review: Journal of Philippine Material Culture and Society, (2023). 8(2): 1-20.
Ritual Act, Technology, and the Efficacy of Traditional Tattooing among the Igorots of Northern Luzon (2021). Journal of Material Culture, https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835211039776.
Empowering Cordillera (Philippines) Weavers through Textile Revitalization in Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific (2021), London: Routledge, pp. 16-29.
Inovero, J.G., Salvador-Amores, A. and Pagaduan, J.C. (2021). Physiological aspects of Cordillera Weaving in the Philippines. Journal of Science, 150(5), 1061-1067.
Anthropological Perspectives on the Philippine Collection at the Field Museum: Material Culture, Collection, and Igorot Identity. Journal of History, 56 (2020): 114-152.
Re-examining Igorot Representation: Issues of Commodification and Cultural Appropriation (2020). Southeast Asian Review, SOAS-London, 28:4, pp. 380-396.
“Body Modification and Adornments among the Agta of Northeastern Luzon, Philippines.” Co-authored with P. Bion Griffin. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 48.1/2 (2020): 85-109.
De Las Peñas, Ma Louise Antonette N., and Analyn Salvador-Amores. “Enigmatic geometric tattoos of the Butbut of Kalinga, Philippines.” The Mathematical Intelligencer 41 (2019): 31-38.
“Circulating Anthropological Knowledge through the Museo Kordilyera, UP Baguio’s Ethnographic Museum” AghamTao 26: 2018, pp. 49-74.
“Hongan di Kinadangyan: Validating Status through Feasting in Ifugao” in D. Tolentino, Jr. (ed) Feasts of Merit: Wealth, Status, and Feasting in the Cordillera, (2018). Museo Kordilyera, University of the Philippines Baguio, pp. 27-58.
“Mortals and Divinities, Feasts and Sacrifice: Mythology and the Ifugao Ritual System” in D. Tolentino, Jr. (ed). (2017). Ifugao: People of the Earth. Manila. Artpost Asia, pp. 46-48.
“Covenant Between Mortals and the Divine: The Ritual Specialists and Mediators” in D. Tolentino, Jr. (ed). (2017). Ifugao: People of the Earth. Manila. Artpost Asia, pp. 88-109.
“Burik: Tattoos of the Ibaloy Mummies of Benguet” in Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing, L. Krutak and A. Deter-Wolf (eds) (2017). Washington: University of Washington Press, pp. 37-55.
Beckett, R. G., Conlogue, G. J., Abinion, O. V., Salvador-Amores, A., & Piombino- Mascali, D. (2017). Human mummification practices among the Ibaloy of Kabayan, North Luzon, the Philippines. Papers on Anthropology, 26(2), 24-37.
‘Afterlives of Dean C. Worcester Colonial Photographs: Visualizing Igorot Material Culture from the Archives to the Cordilleras, North Luzon, Philippines’ (2016). Visual Anthropology Journal, 29: 54-80.
“Marking Bodies, Tattooing Identities: Comparative Study on the Traditional Tattoos of the Kalinga, Northern Luzon, Philippines and the Atayal of Taiwan.” Slovenský národopis 62.4 (2014): 473-504.
Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society. University of the Philippines Press and the Cordillera Studies Center, UP Baguio. (2013)
“Batok (traditional tattoos) in diaspora: The reinvention of a globally mediated Kalinga identity.” South East Asia Research 19.2 (2011): 293-318.
“Breaking barriers of ethnocentrism: Re-examining Igorot representation through material culture and visual research methods.” The Cordillera Review: Journal of Philippine Culture and Society 1.1 (2009): 47-75.
“Batek: traditional tattoos and identities in contemporary Kalinga, North Luzon Philippines.” Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities 3:1(2007).
Children’s Book Publications
Agabel Tayo/(Let’s Weave) Learning Tool Kit on Cordillera Weaving. (2020) Cordillera Textiles Project, University of the Philippines Baguio.
Aramay’s Sinnon: A Ga’dang Weaving Story. (2020). Cordillera Textiles Project, University of the Philippines Baguio. Co-Authored with Margaret Balansi.
Balitanay’s Laktob: A Kalinga Weaving Story. (2020). Cordillera Textiles Project, University of the Philippines Baguio. Co-Authored with Reynalyn Albert.
Fata’an and Her Tilar: A Bontoc Weaving Story (2020). Cordillera Textiles Project, University of the Philippines Baguio.
Dalipug and the Isnag Badu: An Apayao Story. (2020). Cordillera Textiles Project, University of the Philippines Baguio. Co-authored with Jaypeace Llapitan.
Curated Exhibitions
Ties that Bind: Weaving a Defining Future. World Ikat Textiles Symposium, Baguio Convention and Cultural Center, December 2024.
Cordillera Analogues: The Photographs of Eduardo Masferré. Baguio Convention and Cultural Center, November 2023-January 2024.
Pasiking: Handwoven Backpacks of the Luzon Cordillera, Museo Kordilyera, January-February 2023.
Handwoven Tales: The Warp and Weft of Cordillera Textiles, 2019 to present, Museo Kordilyera.
Feasts of Merit: Wealth, Status and Feasting in the Luzon Cordillera, 2018-2019, Museo Kordilyera.
Body as Archive: Tattoos of the Cordillera (Inaugural Exhibition) 2016-2018. Museo Kordilyera.
https://museokordilyera.upb.edu.ph
Relevant Awards
Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Senior Faculty (2021) and Junior Faculty (2011), University of the Philippines Baguio.
One of the Outstanding Filipinos (Outstanding Teacher) Metrobank Foundation, 2015.
Outstanding Young Scientist (Anthropology), National Academy of Science and Technology, 2014.
Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies (2023). Edited by Stephen Acabado et al. 2024 Elfren Cruz Price for the Outstanding Book in the Social Sciences, National Book Development Board (NBDB) and Manila Critics Circle. Included in the volume is Ch 5 on Cordillera Cultural Revival by Analyn Salvador-Amores, Chapter 3.
Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities: Traditional and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society. 2014 Elfren S. Cruz Prize for Best Book in the Social Sciences, National Book Development Board (NBDB), and the Manila Critics Circle;
Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities: Traditional and Modernity in Contemporary Kalinga Society. 2016 Best Book in the Social Sciences conferred by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in the Philippines
Guide to Isinay Orthography (2016) with Lawrence Reid and Analyn Salvador-Amores. Finalist, Outstanding Book in Language by the National Book Development Board (NBDB).
International Publication Awards, University of the Philippines System