The books

2014Free to read

Ebrahim F. Ampuan and Juwairiya U. Lingga

Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

What the Subanen, an indigenous people of the Zamboanga peninsula who are not Muslim, thought of the Bangsamoro entity then being negotiated, and what they asked of it.

2014Free to read

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Philippines

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Philippines

A short profile of the non-Moro indigenous peoples living in mainland ARMM: the Teduray, Lambangian, Dulangan Manobo and Higaonon. It covers their society, culture, economy and population, and was made with EU support.

2013Free to read

Abubakar Datumanong, Parido Rahman Pigkaulan, Maguid Makalingkang and others

Institute of Bangsamoro Studies

Four ways Moro communities settle disputes and feuds by custom, set out by researchers from those communities, with the case for building them into the formal justice system.

2007In print

Shinzo Hayase

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Maguindanao, Sangir and Bagobo as peoples of one sea rather than of two countries, in a history that crosses the border with Indonesia the way they did.

2007Free to read

ed. Wilfredo Magno Torres III

The Asia Foundation

The first systematic study of rido, the clan feuds that take more lives in Muslim Mindanao than the rebellion, with case studies from Lanao, Maguindanao, Sulu and Basilan and the ways communities settle them. Expanded edition from Ateneo de Manila University Press in 2014; the original is free to read.

2006Self-published

Mashur Bin-Ghalib Jundam

Published by the author

How Tausug custom and Islamic law live together in one society, by a Tausug scholar of the University of the Philippines.

2004Out of print

Erlinda M. Burton, Cecilia Macabuac and Lourdes A. Wong

Research Institute for Mindanao Culture

A comparison of 3 communities in the ARMM and how their history, autonomy and social conditions differ. It was published with Action Against Hunger and the European Commission.

2003Out of print

Jennifer Saipudin Nandu

De La Salle University Publishing House

Interviews with divorced Tausug women on marriage, separation and what the law and the community allowed them.

2002In print

James Francis Warren

NUS Press

The Iranun and Balangingi raiders of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the world economy that called their raiding into being, and how a way of life became an ethnic name.

2002Out of print

Rolando C. Esteban

UST Publishing House

The Kalibugan, the Muslim Subanen of the Zamboanga peninsula, and how they stand between the Moro and Lumad worlds.

2001In print

H. Arlo Nimmo

Ateneo de Manila University Press

Nimmo’s return to the Sama Dilaut three decades on: the full ethnography of a people who had by then mostly come ashore.

2000Out of print

Eric S. Casiño

Notre Dame University

Mindanao’s three peoples and their politics as shaped by the land they hold, lowland, upland and coast, by a Filipino anthropologist.

1999Out of print

Jamail A. Kamlian

MSU–Iligan Institute of Technology

Readings on the Moro peoples’ history, society and culture assembled for the peace studies programme at MSU-Iligan.

1998Free to read

Thomas M. McKenna

University of California Press

An anthropologist’s account, from years in Cotabato City, of how ordinary Maguindanaons lived the rebellion, the datus and the state, and why the separatist story and the everyday one do not match. Free to read in the University of California Press e-books collection.

1997Out of print

Abdullah T. Madale

Rex Book Store

A general account of the Maranao for students and the curious: history, social ranks, arts, beliefs and daily life around Lake Lanao.

1994Out of print

H. Arlo Nimmo

University of Washington Press

Stories of the Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi, written by the anthropologist who lived among them, from what he saw and was told.

1993Out of print

B. R. (Rudy) Rodil

Minority Rights Group

A short report for an international readership on the two peoples displaced by the settlement of Mindanao and the state of their claims in the early 1990s.

1991Out of print

Ghislaine Loyré

Historical Conservation Society

The sultanate, the datus, the law and the ranks of Maguindanao society, set out from Spanish sources and the author’s ethnographic fieldwork.

1990Out of print

Esmail R. Disoma

Mindanao State University

A Maranao sociologist’s survey of his people’s customs and beliefs, from birth to burial.

1981Out of print

ed. Nagasura T. Madale

Alemar-Phoenix Publishing House

A reader of essays on the history, faiths and cultures of the Muslim peoples of the Philippines, edited by the Maranao anthropologist.

1979Out of print

Peter G. Gowing

New Day Publishers

A general introduction to the Muslim peoples of the Philippines, their history, faith and institutions and their place in the republic, written for Filipino readers from the Dansalan Research Center in Marawi.

1976Out of print

Andrew Dib Sherfan

Fotomatic

One of the few book-length accounts of the Yakan of Basilan: their farming, weaving, rites and faith as they were in the 1970s.

1975Out of print

eds. Mamitua Saber and Abdullah T. Madale

Solidaridad Publishing House

Essays by Maranao scholars on their own people: the sultanates, the torogan, the darangen, marriage, law and the lake.

1973Out of print

Alexander Spoehr

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology

Excavations and surveys in Zamboanga and Sulu read for what they say of how the region’s peoples came to differ.

1972In print

Thomas M. Kiefer

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

The classic ethnography of the Tausug of Jolo: feud, friendship, law and honour as they were lived in the 1960s. Kept in print by Waveland Press.

1972Out of print

H. Arlo Nimmo

Chandler Publishing

The boat-dwelling Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi in the 1960s and the changes already reaching them, from the anthropologist who lived among them.