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Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society Among the Buid of Mindoro

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Main Details

Title Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society Among the Buid of Mindoro
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas P. Gibson
SeriesLSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Series part Volume No. v. 57
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:276
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreReligion - general
Tribal religions
ISBN/Barcode 9781845205966
ClassificationsDewey:306.4
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations black & white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Berg Publishers
Publication Date 1 January 1986
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

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