Abstract:This essay is a preliminary discussion of the palo-palo, a cultural performance of the Ivatan community in the Batanes group of islands in northernmost Philippines where performers strike "opponents's" sticks to reenact a battle of two opposing camps. The first part is a descriptive narrative of the palo-palo performance. The second part is a preliminary analysis and theorization of the palo-palo's origin by arguing that the performance could have been based on and/or inspired by the komedya, a Philippine traditional theatre form introduced by the Spaniards during colonization which has roots in the socio-historical conflict of the Christians and the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwest Europe. Generally, the localization of the form is argued to be paradoxically an embrace and repudiation of the foreign.

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菲律宾巴丹岛的 Palo-Palo：从殖民遗产到团结的表现

摘要：本文初步探讨了 palo-palo，这是菲律宾最北端巴丹群岛 Ivatan 社区的一种文化表演，表演者击打“对手”的棍子，重演两个对立阵营的战斗。第一部分是对帕洛帕洛表演的描述性叙述。第二部分是对 palo-palo 起源的初步分析和理论化，认为表演可能基于和/或受 komedya 启发，komedya 是西班牙人在殖民时期引入的菲律宾传统戏剧形式，其根源在于社会- 欧洲西南部伊比利亚半岛的基督徒和穆斯林的历史冲突。一般来说，形式的本地化被认为是矛盾的对外国的拥抱和拒绝。