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Agricultural and forest policies of the American colonial regime in Ifugao Territory, Luzon, Philippines, 1901-1945
Philippine quarterly of culture and society • 23 (1) • Published In 1995 • Pages: 3-19
By: Klock, John S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the influence of American colonial rule on Ifugao natural environment and cultural landscape. The American policy in the Ifugao region was not focused on exploiting mineral or timber reserves, but on pacifying the region and developing an infrastructure of schools, roads, and outposts. The Americans recognized and respected Ifugao traditional forestry management practices, although their indiscriminate cutting down of trees around their outposts violated Ifugao ownership rights and lead the Ifugao to follow suit, undermining their customary practice. Klock also discusses the plants, including coffee, which Spaniards, Chinese, Japanese, and Americans introduced to the Luzon highlands. American-initiated land tenure acts together with a growing market in coffee undermined the customary land tenure system based on genealogies. The Americans also resettled some Ifugao onto the lowlands to relieve population pressure in the highlands.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Agricultural science
- Special crops
- Real property
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ifugao
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1901-1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ifugao Province, Philippines
- NotesAdditional notes
- John S. Klock
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74640433
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ifugao (Philippine people)