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Bezig met laden... Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and Historydoor Renato Rosaldo
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An ethnography which studies the ilongot people from a historical perspective. I think this book illustrates well how oral history can be utilized in practice, but it also clearly shows the limitations of folk memory. There are no great narratives or stories to tell in this kind of history, just one severed head after another. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This study, a history of the kind of people who are supposed to have one, challenges the fashionable view that so-called primitives live in a timeless present. The conventional wisdom, that such societies are static, is shown by the author to be an artifact of anthropological method. By piecing together extended oral histories and written history records, the author found that headhunting among the Ilongots of Northern Luzon, Philippines, was not an unchanging ancient custom, but a cultural practice that has shifted dramatically over the course of the past century. Headhunting stopped, resumed, and stopped again; its victims at various periods were fellow Ilongots, Japanese soldiers, and lowland Christian Filipinos; it took place as surprise attack, planned vendetta, or distant raid against strangers.Placing headhunting in its social, cultural, and historical contexts requires a novel sense of how to use biography, recorded history, and narrative in the analysis of small-scale, non-literate local communities. This study combines historical and ethnographic method and documents the inherent orchestration of structure, events, time, and consciousness. The book is illustrated with 34 photographs. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)959.9History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia The PhilippinesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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It is also a universal book. They may headhunt and yet there are so many common points of reference that your own culture often feels in lockstep all the way until we get to the unique culture expression focused on - beheading others. Notions of peer envy , of how shared aggression can unite, the political tactical use of marriage, all of it grows alongside so many of our own conventions that you see more of yourself than you expected. Highly recommended. ( )