Michelle Rosaldo presents an ethnographic interpretation of the
life of the Ilongots, a group of some 3,500 hunters and
horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines. Her study focuses
on headhunting, a practice that remained active among the Ilongots
until at least 1972. Indigenous notions of "knowledge" and
"passion" are crucial to the Ilongots' perceptions of their own
social practices of headhunting, oratory, marriage, and the
organization of subsistence labor. In explaining the significance
of these key ideas, Professor Rosaldo examines what she considers
to be the most important dimensions of Ilongot social
relationships: the contrasts between men and women and between
accomplished married men and bachelor youths. By defining
"knowledge" and "passion" in the context of their social and
affective significance, the author demonstrates the place of
headhunting in historical and political processes, and shows the
relation between headhunting and indigenous concepts of curing,
reproduction, and health.
Theoretically oriented toward interpretive or symbolic
ethnography, this book clarifies some of the ways in which the
study of a language -- both vocabulary and patterns of usage -- is
a study of a culture; the process of translation is presented as a
method of cultural interpretation. Professor Rosaldo argues that an
appreciation of the Ilongots' specific notions of "the self" and
the emotional concepts associated with headhunting can illuminate
central aspects of the group's social life.
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