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People of the Middle Ground
A Century of Conflict and Accommodation in Central Mindanao, 1880s–1980s
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 439
- ISBN
- 9789715505666
- Availability
- In print
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About the book
A hundred years in the Bukidnon–Lanao borderlands, where Maranao, Lumad, settlers and the state met and sometimes made terms.
Ronald K. Edgerton's history covers a century of conflict and accommodation in Central Mindanao, from the 1880s to the 1980s. Library records place its focus on Bukidnon: its history, social life, customs and folklore.
The publisher's description centres on people who learned to borrow from the new without losing touch with the old. It asks how they found a middle ground in a world of fast change. Ateneo de Manila University Press published the book in 2008. Patricia Irene Dacudao reviewed it in the journal Philippine Studies.
From ubcpress.ca, filipinaslibrary.org.ph, archium.ateneo.edu.
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