People in Berkeley, California, and the Visayas Islands in the Philippines will have unique opportunities to learn about a couple of peaceful societies in coming weeks. Laura Nader, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, will be showing some recent documentary film footage of the Zapotec people at… Continue reading…
Last week the Guardian published the details of a proposed strip mining operation, which is planned for the highlands of Mindoro Island, where several Mangyan societies, including the Buid, subsist. The paper indicates that a vast strip mine will clear vegetation and top soil from 37.5 square miles and force… Continue reading…
The Asian Journal has just published a story about the culture of the Mangyan people, a generic term for the Buid and seven other Mindoro Island societies. The article in the magazine, a weekly published for the Western U.S. Filipino community, emphasizes the incredible human diversity of the Philippines. It… Continue reading…
Laki Iwan, a beloved Buid elder, was about 90 when he slipped on a patch of mud in his village several months ago, fell, hit his head, and died. His body was discovered several hours after the accident. The man was suffused with a spirit of far-sighted generosity, to judge… Continue reading…
Thomas Gibson (1990) has written, “rather than compete in performing acts of courage, Buid youth are most likely to spend their time learning love poems with which to court young girls” (p.131). Although love poetry is not confined to peaceful societies, it may suggest for the Buid of Mindoro Island… Continue reading…
Fewer Buid “tribesmen” have been begging in Calapan City, the capital of Philippines’ Oriental Mindoro province, during the current holiday season compared to previous years. A report from a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, in the online news source Inq7.com, indicates that tribal peoples on Mindoro Island, especially the… Continue reading…
Fewer Buid “tribesmen” have been begging in Calapan City, the capital of Philippines’ Oriental Mindoro province, during the current holiday season compared to previous years. A report from a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, in the online news source Inq7.com, indicates that tribal peoples on Mindoro Island, especially the… Continue reading…
