Book
Magosaha: an ethnology of the Tawi-Tawi Sama Dilaut
Ateneo de Manila University Press • Quezon City • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Nimmo, Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Settlement patterns
- Boats
- Navigation
- Dwellings
- Fishing
- Fishing gear
- Marine hunting
- Household
- Extended families
- Annual cycle
- Division of labor by gender
- Diet
- Marine hunting
- Inter-community relations
- Kin relationships
- Labor supply and employment
- Mutual aid
- Gift giving
- Religious denominations
- Priesthood
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Theory of disease
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Revelation and divination
- Medical therapy
- Ethnopsychology
- Spirits and gods
- Animism
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Cult of the dead
- Organized ceremonial
- Music
- Musical instruments
- Dance
- 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
- 1963, 1965-1967, 1977, 1982, 1997
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1963-1997
- 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. 252-256) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)--Philippines--Tawitawi
- Ethnology--Philippines--Tawitawi
- Tawitawi (Philippines)--Social life and customs