Welcome to Streetprint Manila

Streetprint Manila is a research project that is part of a larger research endeavour called “Six Continents and Between”. Initiated by Prof. Gary Kelly of the University of Alberta, 6CAB seeks to investigate popular print culture across various geographical, sociocultural, and ethnolinguistic contexts. More specifically, it aims to look at reading patterns and preferences of the Filipino Everyman, or those whom we would largely consider members of the “masa” class.

The Religious and The Occult

The Philippines has had a long history with religious texts and religious publications. After all, the book widely considered to be the first published in the Philippines was the Doctrina Cristiana, a book on propagating Christian teachings among the locals. The Spanish book is also remarkable for being the first book to have a Tagalog (the local vernacular), Baybayin (the language of the natives), and Chinese.