ISBN:
0-485-19559-3
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978-0-485-19559-0
ISSN:
0077-1074
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 262 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Monographs on Social Anthropology No 57
Keywords:
Philippinen Ethnie, Philippinen
;
Buhid
;
Mindoro
;
Religion, traditionelle
;
Religion und Gesellschaft
;
Soziale Organisation
Abstract:
The Buid are a group of shifting cultivators inhabiting the highlands of Mindoro. They continue to resist incorporation into the economic, political and ideological systems of the lowland Philippines. This study focuses on the relationship between their value system and their history of resistance to the lowland world. Some of the most striking features of this value system are a thorough-going equality between women and men, old and young; a devaluation of dyadic ties of kinship and reciprocity; a high rate of divorce and remarriage which is positively valued; and, on the religious plane, the legitimation of belief through the direct personal experience of the spirit world in communal seances and sacrifices. This study is based on field research among the Buid of Ayufay, a community which formed the first large, permanent settlement in its history to counter the threat to their land, property and persons posed by settlers from the lowlands. The work will be of interest to students of ethnicity, highland/lowland relations, and indigenous resistance to the world system, as well as to anthropologists interested in kinship and religion in Southeast Asia.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- The history and economic context -- Social organisation -- Religion -- Religion, society and history -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Combined index and glossary
Note:
Revised edition of doctoral disseration "Religion, Kinship and Society among the Buid of Mindoro, Philippines", University of London, 1983Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-251
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Doctoral disseration, University of London, 1983 unter dem Titel "Religion, Kinship and Society among the Buid of Mindoro, Philippines"
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