STEPHEN ACABADO authors online article on the Filipino sailors and the invention of tequila

Stephen Acabado, professor of anthropology at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, authored an article on The Conversation on “Filipino sailors dock in Mexico … and help invent tequila?” Acabado is director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies; chair of the interdepartmental archaeology program of the Cotsen Institute; and director of the Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia at UCLA.