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The Complete Fieldworker’s Packing Checklist

Are you a researcher, nonprofit fieldworker, or traveler, whose work often includes traveling to rural areas and hiking to far-flung, marginalized communities? If this is one of your first times in fieldwork and you don’t know where to start preparing or what to bring on your trip, this post is for you! Over years of regularly hiking to remote tribal settlements for fieldwork research for Batak…

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Batak Tribe: Natural Healthcare System

Fascinating. Was just studying the Batak’s natural healthcare system, and I’m in awe of how deeply spiritually-integrated they are with the environment. They have “humans we don’t see”, wood spirits, stone spirits, and fairies (which unfortunately, only the ancient Batak healers had direct access to). And what’s more, some of the really blessed Batak members learn the art of healing through…

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Batak Craft Baskets Now Available

2015 has been a growth-spurt year. It’s been a year of challenges, setbacks, defeats and heartaches, but with it — victories big and small, deeper relationships, and more wisdom about life. So proud to finally launch Batak Craft, an effort to help the “vanishing” Batak Tribe keep their numbers (and culture!) alive by providing them…

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Polka: Elder Culture-Bearer of the Batak Tribe Needs Your Help

“Kagabi, hindi ako nakatulog nang maganda. Nagbangon ako agad, [naga-sungod-sungod]. Nagalabas yung [nana] kagabi! Ah, bangon ako kaagad. Hindi ako makatiis. Lagi naga-kirot.” Translation: Last night, I didn’t sleep well. I woke up at once, because my wound hurt. The pus was coming out last night, so I sat up. I can’t bear it. It always throbs in pain. This is Polka, a Batak elder from Barangay…

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Batak Pride

On our last visit to the Batak at Langogan, Palawan, I made it a point to bring something that the kids can have fun with while my team and I take a break from the trips. I wanted to awaken that part of their minds that go far beyond the salt-sprinkled rice for breakfast (…lunch and dinner), beyond the unlit classrooms that go dark on rainy afternoons, and beyond the hectares and hectares of…

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Simple Joys

Bobby: “Papa’yo ka?” (Maliligo ka? / Are you going to take a bath?) Me: “Uu. Mama’yo ta na.” (Oo. Maligo na tayo. / Yes. Come let’s take a bath.) Bobby, in the middle, holds a little plastic bag of “karundang” or shrimps as bait for when he goes fishing later. It’s such a nice feeling when somewhere in the rural corners of our technology-ridden world, children enjoy playing at the forest river…

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When the Batak Sing: A Cuyunon Love Song 3 On a regular Batak household, recreational activities involve all family members. On this evening that we recorded Batak love songs, you can hear even the kids who try to sing along with the adults.

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When the Batak Sing: A Cuyonon Love Song 2

This is another Cuyonon love song, sung by a different Batak man back in November 2014. There’s ample ambient description in the first few seconds of the recording to give you a feel of…

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Part 1: Baselisa the Batak ex-Lady Chieftain

(Conversation translated into English) “Who are you, and what are you doing here?” A lady, who emerged from the darkness, came walking into our funny conversation and suddenly the others became quiet. The Tribal Council Kagawad, “Imong”, Chieftain’s wife, Teresa, another lady named Nenita, I and my teammates Rudra and Jojo—had already been speaking for a while about the current situation in the…

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