Includes bibliographical references.

Isabelo's archive -- The haze of history -- Maidens shrouded in darkness -- A woman named Virgin Mary -- Men with tails -- A history of shame -- Remembering the body -- Densities of time -- Dragon and leech -- A poem of all the names of the rivers -- National geographics -- The verses of Bartolome Saguinsin -- The Aritmetica of Rufino Baltazar -- The book that did not exist -- Unicorns in the garden of reason -- Isabelo's almanac -- History of the world in seventeen lines -- Blumenbach's model -- Claiming "Malayness" -- Tales of Manilamen -- The traveling Filipino -- The itineraries of Mariano Ponce -- Atlas versified -- Ilocanizing Verdi -- Notes for the production of a Brechtian komedya -- Musica Moralia -- Jose Rizal and the invention of a national literature -- The mysteries of Gabriel Beato Francisco -- Canonizing Batangas -- The making of a national pantheon -- Beheading heads, changing heads -- The dangerous beauty of the headhunter -- Broken branches

In English.