Oona Paredes

Title

Oona Paredes

Birthplace

Mindanao, Philippines

Primary Sources

Paredes, O. (2022) More Indigenous than Others: The Paradox of Indigeneity among the Higaunon Lumad,” SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 37(1): 27-57.

Paredes, O. (2021) Christianity as Colonialism: Understanding the Impact of Catholicism Beyond Catholics in the Philippines, Filipinas: Journal of the Philippine Studies Association 4: 41-50.

Paredes, O. (2021) Indigenizing Culture: Research Collaboration and Heritage-Making with Higaunon Lumad Communities in the Southern Philippines. In  S. Acabado & D. Kuan (Eds.) Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment,  pp. 183-201. Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003126690

Paredes, O. (2019). Preserving ‘tradition’: The business of Indigeneity in the modern Philippine context. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 50(1), 86-106.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463419000055

Paredes, O. (2017). Projecting order in the pericolonial Philippines: An anthropology of Catholicism beyond Catholics. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 28(2), 225–241.
https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12234

Paredes, O. (2015). Indigenous vs. native: Negotiating the place of Lumads in the Bangsamoro homeland. Asian Ethnicity, 16(2), 166–185.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2015.1003690
 
Paredes, O. (2013). A mountain of difference: The Lumad in early colonial Mindanao. Cornell University Press. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780877277613/a-mountain-of-difference/#bookTabs=1

Secondary Sources

Idrus, R., Chua, L., Bala, P., Buadaeng, K., Egay, K., Leepreecha, P., Paredes, O., Man, Z., Mitot, K., Thambiah, S., & and Somiah, V. (2022). Views from the Ground: Reflections on Studying Indigeneity in Southeast Asia. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 37(1), 113-127.  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/852786.

Kaloyanides, A., Formichi, C., Mai, C.T., Fox, R., Brawn, K.M., McGovern, N., Edwards, P., & Paredes, O. (2021). New decade, new directions: Advancing the study of Southeast Asian religions. Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 36(3), 573–600.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27095986

Dizon, M. (2014). Review of a mountain of difference: The Lumad in early colonial Mindanao, by O. Paredes. Philippine Studies: Historical & Ethnographic Viewpoints, 62(2), 293–296.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24672301

Extra Resources

Oona Paredes, Homepage:  https://oonaparedes. com/azv0e2kn9aszppyam1mb2q6vthhpqq

Brenner, S. (2025, Aug., 11) Professors project book creates 2nd ever book in endangered Phillipine Indigenous languauge, UCLA Humanities News https://humanities.ucla.edu/news/oona-paredes-higaunon-panud-book/

Paredes, O. (2021, April 8). Part 1: Oona Parades speaks on "Indigeneity" and Southeast Asia Studies O.seag upenn. YouTube. Accessed 9 February 2023.
https://youtu.be/_MmbH6QBuaw

Paredes, O. (2021, April 8). Part 2: Oona Parades speaks on "Indigeneity" and Southeast Asia Studies .seag upenn. YouTube. Accessed 9 February 2023.
https://youtu.be/03l-BvQ7BUk

Paredes, O. (2021, April 8). Part 3: Oona Parades speaks on "Indigeneity" and Southeast Asia Studies seag upenn, YouTube. Accessed 9 February 2023.
https://youtu.be/GiEnUIA_n4Q

Collection

Citation

“Oona Paredes,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/409.

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