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The Philippines' Cordilera mountains of Northern Luzon have long been known as home to the peoples termed Igorots. Throughout the Spanish era, however, familiarity among highland peoples was frequently circumscribed. Mutual suspicions and long-standing enmity based on widespread headhunting practices in the Cordillera characterized many intervillage relationships. There was no broadly shared consciousness or solidarity among mountaineers. This work examines how and why American colonial rule transformed social and spatial relations across the Cordillera, creating a distinctive pan-Cordillera Igorot ethnoregional consciousness. It analyzes the ways in which the establishment of Mountain Provi...
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Cultural property, aboriginal people, ethnobiology, legal status, laws.
Textual Relations is a poet's eroticization of reality through language. Sexy, fun, and irreverent, tragic and romantic, this book is a shrewd cocktail of pleasure and poetic truth.