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The Sea People of Sulu
A Study of Social Change in the Philippines
- Publisher
- Chandler Publishing
- Year
- 1972
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 104
- ISBN
- 9780810204539
- Availability
- Out of print
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
About the book
The boat-dwelling Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi in the 1960s and the changes already reaching them, from the anthropologist who lived among them.
H. Arlo Nimmo's short study, subtitled A Study of Social Change in the Philippines, is based on his fieldwork among the Sama-Bajau of Sulu from 1965 to 1967. It appeared in 1972 in the series Studies in Social and Economic Change.
Nimmo compares the boat-dwelling Sama of Tawi-Tawi with the house-dwelling Sama of Sibutu. He finds clear differences in how households are formed, which marriages are preferred, religious practice, and where power lies in kin groups and villages. The anthropologists at the Human Relations Area Files sum up his finding this way: he traces these differences not to more contact with other cultures, but to the way people reshaped old patterns of behaviour to adapt to a changing political world.
The book has illustrations, a bibliography and an index. Nimmo later wrote The Songs of Salanda, stories drawn from the same fieldwork.
From ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu, archive.org, openlibrary.org.
Cover from Open Library, shown to identify the book; its rights stay with the publisher.
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