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The Ifugao Living Law

Sri Lankan Journal of Human Resource Management

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Title The Ifugao Living Law
 
Creator Barrameda, Mary Constancy
 
Subject Indigenous Peoples; Ifugao
 
Description The legacy of colonial rule is intolerance for indigenization. Having lived the "western" way of life, Filipinos, particularly the Filipino elites subscribe to a system of laws that is culturally misplaced. The effects of religious and consumer values have been devastating and often irreversible even for indigenous peoples (IPs) who live in near isolation. The author suggests that a path to nationhood can be led by the IPs of the Philippines. Relatively untouched by Spanish or American influences, IPs govern themselves with indigenous laws dating back to centuries before the arrival of the first Spaniard. With preserved cultures, the peoples of the Cordilleras have settled disputes without the aid of codified western legal references and have not gone extinct. It is a body of knowledge that needs to be shared by the IPs and studied by scholars. Much can be learned from IPs and their laws and an open mind could free Filipinos from the mindset that only western ideas are good.
 
Publisher Third World Studies Center
 
Date 2008-10-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/1110
 
Source Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies; Vol 15, No 2 (2000): Indigenous Peoples
2012-080X
0116–0923
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/article/view/1110/1148