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Zamboanga and Sulu
An Archaeological Approach to Ethnic Diversity
- Year
- 1973
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 298
- Availability
- Out of print
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About the book
Excavations and surveys in Zamboanga and Sulu read for what they say of how the region’s peoples came to differ.
Alexander Spoehr uses archaeology to give historical depth to the peoples of the southern Zamboanga peninsula and the Sulu archipelago: the Zamboangueños, Subanun, Tausug, Badjau and Samal-speaking groups. He treats them not as isolated tribes but as societies linked by exchange. Land and forest goods from the Zamboangueños and Subanun met the sea products and trade goods of the Tausug and Samal, and control of trade shaped who held power, with the Tausug sultans and datus at the top.
Spoehr surveyed and dug at Fort Pilar, at rock shelters and caves on the east coast of Zamboanga City, at forts around Parang on Jolo, whose plans he reconstructed, and on Sanga-Sanga in Tawi-Tawi, where finds date to between 5995 and 6650 BC. The rest of the book compares pottery, stone tools, shell ornaments, brass and grave markers. His pottery finds question the archaeologist Solheim's threefold division of Philippine pottery.
It was the first Ethnology Monograph of the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Anthropology, published in 1973, with 298 pages. Eric Casiño reviewed it in Philippine Studies in 1977, and Karl Hutterer in the Journal of Asian Studies.
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