Book
The sea people of Sulu: a study of social change in the Philippines
Chandler Pub. Co. • San Francisco • Published In 1972 • Pages: xi, 104
By: Nimmo, Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of changes in traditional Sama-Bajau culture compares the boat-dwellers Tawi-Tawi and the house-dwellers of Sibutu, showing substantial variations in social behavior and structural features, such as household composition, preferred marriage type, and religious practices, and in power dynamics within kinship groups, village communities and other social spheres. The author attributes these differences not to increased contact with other cultures, but to the exigencies of adapting to the changing political environment by reconfiguring existing patterns of social behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Settlement patterns
- Dwellings
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Regulation of marriage
- Residence
- Household
- Extended families
- Family relationships
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Fishing
- Fishing gear
- Labor supply and employment
- Community heads
- General character of religion
- Organized ceremonial
- Cult of the dead
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sama-Bajau
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1965-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tawi-Tawi province, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
- NotesAdditional notes
- H. Arlo Nimmo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 101)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70179034
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)
- Sulu Archipelago (Philippines)--Social conditions