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Wisdom from a Rainforest
In the early sixties, Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant, gentle way of life would transform his own values and beliefs profoundly. Wisdom from a Rainforest is Schlegel's testament to his experience and to the Teduray people of Figel, from whom he learned such vital, lasting lessons. Schlegel's lively ethnography of the Teduray portrays how their behavior and traditions revolved around kindness and compassion for humans, animals, and the spirits sharing their worlds. Schlegel describes the Teduray's remarkable legal system and their strong story-telli...
Tiruray Justice
This book offers a recent case study of the transformation from a traditional economic system, under pressure to change, into a peasant system which is totally different, by the Teduray (Tiruray) people of the southern Philippines. The traditional activities of shifting cultivation, hunting, fishing, and dealings with the coastal market outside the rainforest are described in detail, along with the social order that sustains it. When the forest was being logged out, the people were driven out of the forest where they became a variant of general lowland Filipino peasant life. Every aspect of their subsistence activities were then different, and their old and highly satisfying social relations and economic practices were lost. There is sufficient statistical data on both regimes to allow comparison of their effectiveness in nutrition and family wellbeing.
Tiruray Subsistence
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On the Study of Greek Poetry
Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.
The Living Church
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The Real Wealth of Nations
Eisler exposes the economic double standard that devalues anything stereotypically associated with women and femininity, and shows how this distorts not only a society's values but individual's lives as well.
Muslim Rulers and Rebels
In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background of more than four hundred years of political relations among indigenous Muslim rulers, their subjects, and external powers seeking the subjugation of Philippine Muslims. He also explores the motivations of the ordinary men and women who fight in armed separatist struggles and investigates the formation of nationalist identities. A skillful meld of historical detail and ethnographic research, Muslim Rulers and Rebels makes a compelling contribution to the study of protest, rebellion, and revolution worldwide.
Nurturing Our Humanity
Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how to structure our environments--from family and gender relations to politics and economics--to support our great capacities for consciousness, caring, and creativity. It examines where societies fall on the partnership-domination scale, and how this impacts equity, sustainability, peace, and how our brains develop. Combining cutting-edge findings from biological and social science, it explains regressions to strongman rule and other dangerous trends; re-examines our past (including societies that for millennia oriented toward partnership); and outlines actions to move us in this life-sustaining and enhancing direction.
