What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling
Two anthropologists look back on one of the year’s most binged animated shows on Netflix—the supernatural Filipino crime thriller Trese—and what it missed about the stories of Indigenous peoples.
Myfel D. Paluga
Myfel D. Paluga is an anthropologist and a faculty member of the department of social sciences at the University of the Philippines in Mindanao. He has done field studies in the ethology of Philippine macaques, human-animal relations in Southeast Asia and Japan, and Indigenous practices related to sago palm utilization in Mindanao and the Visayas. At present, Paluga is doing a dissertation on Pantaron Manobo epics and society at Leiden University.