Kaingin Ethnoecological Practices Of 7 Upland Communities In Mindanao Ata Dulangan Manobo Higaonon

"This study sets out to investigate the social system of a pagan group in central Mindanao which has never attracted attention previously. The intention is to describe the Manuvu' social system as it functions in the ethnographic present and as it has functioned during the recent past (up to and until 1941) in the important aspects of its social (family system and kinship system), economic, ritualistic, legal, and tribal) organizations. These aspects are studied primarily to formulate general statements concerning the nature of Manuvu' society and regularities in its structure and development by following the concept dynamically through time." --from the Introduction

The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disruptions attending incorporation into broader socioeconomic systems.

In The Boxer Codex, two scholars have transcribed, translated and annotated a unique and illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript that deals with the early-modern geography, history and ethnography of the western Pacific and maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia.