'Toy napigket nga daga
Pitpitenmi nga umuna
Danggayanmi't kankanta
Takkiagmi a napigsa
Kettang ken bannogmi
dikam igingina 

     Mannamili
     Ilokano Folk Song

ABSTRACT

          Academe and all other institutions who engage in the production of knowledge have always compartmentalized and specialized knowledge into disciplines.  Boundaries are created in earnest, there is hesitance to cross-over from one discipline to another as there could be academic intrusion or trespassing.  Yet, many academicians have also interloped across disciplines migrating from one to another with ease and clarity.  Area, regional, international studies have provided the impetus for multi-disciplinary  and inter-disciplinary perspectives.  

          Amianan Studies is compelled to engage in knowledge production, dissemination, analysis and popularization of Northern Philippines through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.  There is need to interrelate and inter-act all branches of all knowledge.  Indigenous knowledge systems as well as philosophies and cosmologies from the region have asserted this wisdom for ages.  All things in all the planet and the entire universe are interconnected, one phenomena cannot be dissociated from another.

          This paper will illustrate some of the practical and very basic applications of the multidisciplinary perspective in the interpretation of literary and historical texts — i.e. the interactions of cultural, anthropological, historical, political and economic, as well as philosophical and even scientific perspectives to bring about more holistic views and visions of the life and peoples of Northern Philippines as they act out their roles as citizens in an emerging Filipino Nation.

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