Voyeurs & Savages is a 1998 English-language novel written by Filipino novelist Alfred A. Yuson. The 220-page novel was published in Pasig in the Philippines by Anvil Publishing, Inc. The second edition of the novel was published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. in 2003. The novel is a winner of the Philippines' Centennial Literary Prize. The novel featured the events before, during, and after the St. Louis World Exposition of 1904 in the United States. During the exposition that was held at the St. Louis, Missouri, a group of ethnic minorities from the Mountain Province of the Philippines represented the Philippines. Apart from being representatives from the Philippines, the group of Filipinos were also the "tribal specimens" selected and exhibited by a group of American researchers and presenters during the exposition. Description The focus of Voyeurs & Savages — Yuzon's second novel after the Great Philippine Jungle Energy Café — are the Filipino and American participants during the 1904 St. Louis World Exposition (formerly known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and informally as the Saint Louis World's Fair) held in the United States, and eventually the descendants of these exhibition partakers living during the latter part of the 1990s. The Filipino participants during the exposition at St. Louis, Missouri in the United States are the Kankanai tribal people. The Americans are the exposition team members and the visitors at the exposition. According to book reviewer Vicente G. Groyon III, the novel tackled the situation wherein the Filipinos and the Americans both acted as "voyeurs" or "watchers" — observers and scrutinizers of each other — an interaction between the surveyor and the surveyed, and between the colonizer and the colonized. In Yuzon's novel, both races acted as "Peeping Toms" who engaged in "private and public acts of self-gratification and humiliation". Plot Meynard, during his research on Philippine-American relations, was able to produce historical documents — an assemblage of articles, letters, pamphlets, brochures, e-mails among others. Through these documents, Meynard Aguinaldo was able to "peep" through the lives of other people, whether Filipino or American. Armando Aguinaldo, in turn — in a scene from the novel — secretly watched his nephew Meynard Aguinaldo and the daughter of Cornelius James when the dating couple were copulating inside one of the suites of his beach resort. The ending of the novel presents a scene where Cornelius James and Rowena — the grandfather and the granddaughter