E. Arsenio Manuel

Esperidión Arsenio Manuel, known as E. Arsenio Manuel, was a Philippine academic, historian, and anthropologist best known for his contributions to Philippine anthropology, history, literature, and linguistics. During a three-decade academic career at the University of the Philippines, he wrote a seminal survey of Philippine folk epics, and was responsible for discovering and publishing folk epics from the Manuvu, Matigsalug, and Ilianon peoples.

Si Esperidión Arsenio Manuel, na kilala bilang E. Arsenio Manuel, ay isang akademiko, mananalaysay, at antropologo ng Pilipinas na kilala sa kanyang mga kontribusyon sa antropolohiya, kasaysayan, panitikan, at lingguwistika ng Pilipinas. Sa loob ng tatlong dekada na akademikong karera sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas, sumulat siya ng isang mahalagang survey ng mga epikong bayan ng Pilipinas, at responsable sa pagtuklas at paglalathala ng mga katutubong epiko mula sa mga mamamayang Manuvu, Matigsalug, at Ilianon. Ilan sa mahalagang saliksik niya ang apat na bolyum na Dictionary of Philippine Biography (1955-1970), Tayabas Tagalog Fragments from Quezon Province (1958), A Survey of Philippine Folk Epics (1963), A Lexicographic Study of Tayabas Tagalog in Quezon Province (1971), Documenting Philippinesian: An Inquiry into the Ancestry of the Filipino People (1994).

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