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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Sama-Bajau
- 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
- 1965-1967
- Coverage Date
- 1965-1967
- Coverage Place
- Tawi-Tawi province, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
- Notes
- H. Arlo Nimmo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 101)
- LCCN
- 70179034
- LCSH
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)
- Sulu Archipelago (Philippines)--Social conditions