Book
Magosaha: an ethnology of the Tawi-Tawi Sama Dilaut
Ateneo de Manila University Press • Quezon City • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Nimmo, Harry.
Abstract
This is an exploration of the cultural and economic forces underlying the seasonal migration of the traditional boat-dwelling Sama-Bajau communities of the Sulu Archipelago. The central theme is that many cultural changes over four decades are due to the combined effects of increased commercialization of local sea and forest products, expansion of Islam into the islands, armed rebellion by local Islamist groups against the Philippine government, and military occupation. By 1997, the islands had attracted upscale tourist facilities and lucrative investments in maritime resources. In adjusting to these forces of modernity and globalization the Sama-Bajau lost core aspects of their material culture, most notably their boat-houses and traditional fishing techniques. They nevertheless managed to maintain their distinctive worldview and their manner of honoring and relating to ancestors.
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field Date
- 1963, 1965-1967, 1977, 1982, 1997
- Coverage Date
- 1963-1997
- Coverage Place
- Tawi-Tawi province, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
- Notes
- H. Arlo Nimmo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-256) and index
- LCSH
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)--Philippines--Tawitawi
- Ethnology--Philippines--Tawitawi
- Tawitawi (Philippines)--Social life and customs