Alicia P. Magos is an anthropologist and a professor emerita of University of the Philippines Visayas.
She was a UNESCO International Literary Research Awardee and 1999 Metrobank Ten Outstanding Teacher.
Magos started her work on the Sugidanon (to tell), the epics of Panay in 1992 through a grant from the French government.
The epics are the following: Tikun Kadlom, Amburukay, Derikaryong Pada, Balanakon, Kalampay, Pahagunong, Sinagnayan, Humadapnon sa Tarangban, Nagburuhisan, and Alayaw.
[2] Magos first inquired into the phenomenon of the binukot from a socio-political perspective when she studied extensively the ma-aram (Babaylan) tradition in Antique.