Authentic Though Not Exotic by Fernando Zialcita

Authentic Though Not Exotic: Essays on Filipino Identity is anthropologist Fernando Nakpil Zialcita's collection of essays arguing for a Filipino selfhood shaped by - but not reducible to - its colonial encounters. Winner of the 2005 National Book Award for the Social Sciences, the book traces how Spanish, indigenous, and broader Asian inheritances have been transformed by local genius into something distinct.