#philippine tribes

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T'boli, A tribe from south Cotabato, Mindadanao.

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The Complete Fieldworker’s Packing Checklist

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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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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The Elder of Head Hunters in Mt. Province Philippines For centuries the tribesmen of the Cordillera stalked their enemies, lopped off their heads and took them home. Trophy heads, turned into skulls, won the head-taker the respect of his fellows and the admiration of women. Of the six tribes that took heads only the Ifugaos displayed them in works of assembled sculpture such as those you see above. Head-hunting raids, sanctioned and carried out by entire villages, toke place until 1913, the year when American Forces who governed the mountain tribes after the Spanish-American War of 1898, finally persuaded village leaders to give up communal decapitating. But unsanctioned head-taking by individuals continued until well after 1950.  Source in from: cordilleranmuseum.weebly.com/g…