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Ethnic Boundary-Making at the Margins of Conflict in The Philippines
Author: Anabelle Ragsag
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-03
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9811525250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship on ethnicity, conflict, nation-making, colonial history and religious minorities in the Philippines, which has been confronted with innumerable issues relating to their ethnic and religious minority populations. Using Sarangani Bay as a research site, the book zones in on the lives of the Muslim Sinamas and the Christianized indigenous B'laans as they navigate the effects of the ongoing turmoil in the Bangsamoro region in Muslim Mindanao—a multi-faceted conflict involving numerous armed groups, as well as clans, criminal gangs and political elites. This work considers the factors affecting the Muslim Moro people, who have long been struggling for their right to self-determination. The conflict in the Moro areas has evolved over the past five decades from an ethnonationalist struggle between an aggrieved minority and a thorny issue for the central government: a highly fragmented conflict with multiple overlapping causes of violence. The book provides a framework for understanding the ethnic separatism in the case of the southern part of the country, framed by the concept of ethnic boundaries. Providing an excellent blend of theory and empirical evidence, the author confronts how ethno-religious divisions adversely impact the quality of life and unpacks how these divisions challenge multiculturalist policies. Weaving together multiple branches of the social sciences, this book is of interest to policymakers, researchers and students interested in international relations and political science, Asian studies, ethnic studies, Philippines’ history, sociology and anthropology.
Filipino Indigenous Ethnic Communities
The Minoritization of the Indigenous Communities of Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago
The East Timor and Mindanao Independence Movements
Author: Ernesto D. Boac
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It was only after the end of World War II that most of the South East Asian countries gained their independence from western colonial rulers. After centuries under foreign dominion, these countries have to go through difficult processes of transformation to protect their new found sovereignty and territorial integrity especially against the threat of communism during the Cold War. More significantly, the peoples of the new independent states found greater incentives and opportunities to identify themselves with ethnic groups along common decent, shared experiences and cultural factors. This social dynamics led to the emergence of tensions and conflicts not only between ethnic groups and the state, but also between ethnic groups and other groups of society. The causes of such conflicts are complex and varied, such as discrimination, repression, political disenfranchisement and the like.
The Lumad and Moro of Mindanao
Author: B. R. Rodil
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This document analyzes the two main indigenous groups in the south of the Philippines. It outlines the history of the Lumad and Moro communities of Mindanao. The document discusses the effects of development and business interests in the region, and their campaigns around land issues. The Lumad and Moro accept the need to develop new sources of energy, but ask that their ancestral lands, and their ability to manage them in line with sustainable development, be recognized and respected. Both groups have maintained distinct and enduring identities in the face of Spanish and U.S. colonization, and the policies of the predominantly Christian Philippines government. The Lumad retain traditional beliefs and customs, while the Moro have embraced Islam. Inextricably linked is the 20 year old war of attrition the government has waged with the Moro National Liberation Front. The booklet contains a glossary at the beginning of the document. This is followed by a brief political history of the Philippines as background. The second chapter is an introduction to the Lumad and Moro groups of Mindanao. The next four chapters describe the Moro's struggle for self determination, Lumad objection to the Philippine National Oil Company's plan to drill geothermal wells in the area of the dormant volcano of Mount Apo, the Agus I hydroelectric plant, and prospects for problem resolution and peace. A chapter on directions for the future is included. Includes 40 references, 3 maps, and 70 notes. (DK).
Reputation and Civil War
Author: Barbara F. Walter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-08-27
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0521763525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Attempts to resolve why self-determination disputes between governments and ethnic minorities so often result in civil war.
Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia
Author: A. Rambo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2020-08-06
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 047290230X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors consider the ways in which the high degree of ethnic diversity within the region is related to the nature of tropical Asian environments, on the one hand, and the nature of Southeast Asian political systems and the ways in which they manipulate natural resources, on the other. Rather than focus on defining the phenomenon of ethnicity, this book examines the different social evolutionary contexts in which the phenomenon is manifested. Companion volume to Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia (Michigan Papers no. 27).
A Manual on Ethnic Reporting
Manuvu' Social Organization
Author: E. Arsenio Manuel
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 482
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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
