ABSTRACT
We arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport on 17 April 1997. PETA staff member Gail Billones took us in a hired jeepney through rush-hour traffic across town to the PETA office in Lantana street, Cubao, where we could safely store our equipment. The next day, we had a briefing with PETA executive director Beng Santos Cabangon, treasurer Mel Bernardo and Ernie Cloma, the energetic veteran artistteacher who would lead the Marinduque expedition. They gave us our schedule and connected me by phone to Eli Obligacion, the coordinator there. My friend Jack Yabut, head of PETA’s marketing and promotions, then took me book shopping at the Ateneo University Press store and later his wife Hiroko, a Japanese anthropologist, showed me the ins and outs of the university library.
