VANISHING CULTURAL HERITAGE IN BULACAN

VERNACULAR MEMORIES OF THE WOMEN FISHERFOLKS A VANISHING

CULTURAL HERITAGE IN NAMAYAN MALOLOS BULACAN

By
FERNANDEZ, DONABELLE A.
HABLA, LORRAINE E.
HERVIAS, EJ EMMANUEL R.
MENDOZA, ARJEL

INTRODUCTION
Pamamaklad fish scooping in a confined space showing the nightlife of the
female fishermen is a rapidly disappearing cultural tradition that needs to be preserved.
throughout the urbanisation process.This qualitative study records the memories from
the local culture. Of the namamaklad women and how their fishing methods shaped
their lives, adventures in Malolos City, Philippines's tiny island of Namayan. Centred on
five namamaklad women were subjected to interviews and nonparticipant observation to
discover the meanings attached to their fishing methods within the framework of
vernacular recollections. Emerging themes include intimate family ties, an
entrepreneurial partnership, and nature's risk Likewise, urbanisation Understanding is
clarified by describing women's qualities. on the importance they attach to their fishing
methods. The need for vernacular memories historical context to emphasise the
importance of women in traditional fishing industry.
Keywords: cultural heritage, namamaklad, vernacular memories, women fisherfolks.
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Many people have varied definitions for the term vernacular. It may allude to
mythology and stories about the use of urbanisation traditions, urban literature, and/or
urban history as expressions of collective memory 2008 in this essay, the term
"vernacular" refers to the history of the commonplace mainly intangible legacy, which
includes physical locations and artefacts. based on the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Survey from 2003. The three components of conventional intangible cultural heritage
are activities, expressions, and knowledge.and abilities the owners are the ones who
control the instruments, items, artefacts, and cultural places in its setting.communities,
teams, and occasionally even individuals. The common language has been under
attack as a result of quick economic development. technological, environmental, and
urbanisation challenges. The women's namamaklad (style of dress) is used in this study
toThe estuarine fish corral, a cultural area, and fishing boats as instruments are both in
danger from development.In addition, the engagement of women in communal activities
is decreasing along with intangible heritage. While they concentrate on their careers
and studies, they restrict fishing.
RESEARCH LOCALE
Women primarily participate in post-harvest chores in Philippine fishing
communities, as is standard practice globally. Women frequently participate in river
fishing, shell gathering, and shell extraction. Near-shore activities include fishing with
scoop nets and spear-like equipment (Villacorta,
1998). According to Lopez-Rodriguez (1996), Batan, Aklan, women are considered
secondary laborers who help their spouses with basic fish handling activities like selling
fish and fixing nets, while seaweeds Since they view women's jobs as auxiliary work,
farmers in Calatagan, Batangas view them as increasing the scope of their housework
(Arandez-Tanchuling & Durano, 2006)
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Examination of complex relationships surrounding gender, participation, and
empowerment in the environmental arena requires an innovative framework that
combines
elements of gender analysis and an evaluation metric for empowerment. Thus, several
World
Bank (Petesch et al., Diener & Biswas-Diener, Grootaert C., 2005) empowerment
evaluation
frameworks were adapted and applied in conjunction with USAID’s Six Domain Gender
Analysis Framework (USAID, 2011). The adapted World Bank frameworks served to
contextualize the study, acknowledge the study’s limitations, and evaluate how the US
CTI
program’s activities encouraged empowerment. The USAID Framework was utilized to
formulate questions that analyzed elements of the US CTI’s program structure, which
had an
effect on gender outcomes.
STATEMATENT OF THE FROBKLEM
The vanishing tradition of fishermen's way of catching fish which is also known as
"namamaklad" getting urbanized by their fellow locals by using advanced way of mining
much more fish with industrial revolution.

SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

In this study effort shall be made to identify the reasons for exploitation of
fisherwomen in
fishing and to know the problems they are facing in marketing of fish. In other words, the
study shall be limited to the issue in objective of the study then to examine the problems
facing by the fisher women.
LIMITION OF THE STUDY
Each and every task has certain limitations and hurdles in the course of its
performance. But this doesn’t mean that the task should stick up whenever certain
limitation come up and even
my study had certain problems. The need is to try one’s level best to solve incoming
limitation. Few limitations of the study are enumerated below:
Fisherwomen did not respond properly as they were very busy in their business.
Study was too expensive/costly.
Due to lack of respondent’s study got limited to sample size of 11 and hence the
result
cannot be taken as universal.
The scope of the study is limited to Moodbidri.
Due to tough working conditions of their business and their disappointment towards
the government, had to face some bad response
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The significance of this work lies in its attempt to acknowledge the role of women as
partners in fishing, given
the aspects of reality that are unheard of in the fishing industry. It emphasizes the
idiomatic memories of the
Within the setting of urban demands, women fishermen. It describes how these
linguistic memories are conveyed, capture the challenges faced by women in the
context of the economy and environment.