Brief Profile
Over the past decade or so, Hector Guazon’s participation in and identification with anthropological practice extend in various arenas: As assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines-Mindanao (2005-2006) and the Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2020-), as lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2006-2020), teaching migration, folklore, religion, social anthropology, economic anthropology, urban anthropology, field methods in social anthropology and folklore; as assistant curator at the St Louis University Museum (2014-2018), Baguio City; as officer of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao or the Anthropological Association of the Philippines (2014-2015) and member of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, International Society for Sociology of Religion and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; as consultant of CICM-Rome on Religious Formation (2005); as knowledge producer through his publications in peer-reviewed journal.
He has produced a thesis on the micropolitics of initiation of a religious congregation in the Philippines, as part of his MA program in the University of the Philippines- Diliman (2004) and dissertation on the sociomoral world of the Filipino Catholics in Brussels, Belgium as requirement for his doctorate in the University of the Philippines-Diliman (2012). His disciplined disposition was recognized by the Katholiek Universiteit-Leuven, which granted him international scholarship during his field research in Brussels (2009-2010) and accrued positively to his production of vital contribution to anthropology of religion, religious institution, Roman Catholicism, migration, morality as well as psychological and urban anthropology.
Research Interest and Specialization
Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Catholicism, Anthropology of Migration and Mobility, Urban Anthropology
Geographical Areas / Field Sites
Northern Europe, Cordillera Administrative Region
Publications
- Guazon, H. T. (2024). Flow of things and bodies: The production of flowers in La Trinidad, Benguet. Anthropozine: The Official Publication of the University of the Philippines H. Otley Beyer Museum of Anthropology, 1(2), 1–7. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/anthropozine/article/view/10314
- Aquino, C. D., Calanog, J., Cawed, J. M., Guce, M. A., & Guazon, H. T. (2024). From flower farming to agritourism: The conditions of (dis)entanglements and material (im)mobility in Bahong, La Trinidad amid COVID-19. Anthropozine: The Official Publication of the University of the Philippines H. Otley Beyer Museum of Anthropology, 1(2), 22–29. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/anthropozine/article/view/10301
- Licos, J. A., Roque, R., & Guazon, H. T. (2024). Mapteng ja biag (a beautiful life): A study on the child-rearing practices of farmers amidst agricultural shift in Bahong’s farms. Anthropozine: The Official Publication of the University of the Philippines H. Otley Beyer Museum of Anthropology, 1(2), 83–92. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/anthropozine/article/view/10308
- Mercurio, D. V., Ng, G. S., Pagdanganan, J. R. S., & Guazon, H. T. (2024). From Bahong flower farms to the Dangwa flower market: Tracing the flow of cut-flowers, agents, and local knowledge. Anthropozine: The Official Publication of the University of the Philippines H. Otley Beyer Museum of Anthropology, 1(2), 30–38. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/anthropozine/article/view/10302
- Torre, J. G. D., Guerrero, S. J. D., & Guazon, H. T. (2024). The limits and possibilities of “garage”: An ethnographic exploration on the local transportation system of Bahong, La Trinidad, Benguet amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Anthropozine: The Official Publication of the University of the Philippines H. Otley Beyer Museum of Anthropology, 1(2), 59–67. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/anthropozine/article/view/10316
- Guazon, H. T. (2017). Review of Pastures of plenty: Tracing religio-scapes of prosperity gospel in Africa and beyond (A. Heuser, Ed.). Social Sciences and Missions, 30(1–2).
- Guazon, H. T. (2016). Review of Mother figured: Marian apparitions and the making of a Filipino universal (D. de la Cruz). American Anthropologist, 118(4), 888–889.
- Guazon, H. T., & Sumagaysay, M. (2015). Attracting buynas: Ambivalence of Limasawa fishers’ ritual practices. Philippine Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 18, 24–36.
- Guazon, H. T. (2013). Wellbeing in caring: The alaga system among Filipino Catholics in Brussels, Belgium. Aghamtao: Journal of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines, 22, 1–21.
- Guazon, H. T. (2005). Crisis in the formation of temporary members of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ugat, 195–218.
- Guazon, H. T. (2007). Culture of the plain and simple. In Carrying on the mission: 100 years of CICM in the Philippines (pp. 98–101). CICM Philippines.
- Guazon, H. T. (2000). Heroes and refugees. In Youngblood 2.0 (pp. 116–118). Philippine Daily Inquirer Publishing.