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A

Abatan, 1 , 15 , 90 , 141 -142, 205 , 227

Abra River, 1 , 175

ACCFA (Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing Administration), 128

Accounting, indigenous, 91

Agno River, 1 , 24 , 28 , 175 , 180

Agricultural chemicals, 2 , 122 , 130 , 135 , 143 -144, 164 , 169 , 172

Agricultural intensification, 38 , 41 -44, 172

Agriculture. See Animal husbandry; Subsistence cropping; Swidden; Vegetable cultivation

Alcohol problems, 191 , 203

See also Rice beer

Alnus japonica , 179

American colonialists: administrative system, 15

encouragement of vegetable growing, 96

ethnographic conceptions, 12

failure to provide relief after war, 110

forestry policy, 174

impressions of Cordilleran peoples, 103 -104

interference with rituals, 100

land policies, 56 , 196 , 198

political regime, 99 -101

public works, 102

racism, 103

and social stratification, 234

visions of future, 104 -105

Ancestor worship, 1 , 59 , 61 , 66 -67, 173

Ancestral lands, 196 -197

Ancestral spirits (amed ), 59

and control of luck, 3

communications with, 74

See also Prestige feast; Rituals

Andropogon annulatus , 32

Animal husbandry: damage during the war, 110

decline, 117

interference by American authorities, 100

and land tenure, 55

prewar patterns, 30 -31

and social relations, 46 -47

and trade, 85 -86

Animal sacrifice: changes in, 231

and Christianity, 221

and curing rituals, 60

and jury deliberations, 76

prewar patterns, 65 -67

See also Paganism; Prestige feast; Rituals

Antolin, Francisco, 83

Aquino, Benigno, 169

Aquino, Corazon, 211

Atok, 96 , 101 , 121 , 227

Autonomy, Cordilleran, 210 -211

B

Bad-ayan, 108 , 141 -142, 155 , 159 , 188 , 227

Baguio, 1 , 3 , 79 , 88 , 96 , 138 , 142 -143, 154 , 189 , 229 , 244

vegetable market in, 15 , 140

Bakun, 186 , 225

Balweg, Conrado, 211

Banditry (the "busol problem"), 50 , 100

Banking. See Capital

Barrows, David, 95

Beans, 126 , 133

Beets, 166

Bell peppers, 126 , 133

Bidens pilosa , 36

Blackburn, Don, 107 -108

Blaikie, Piers, 8

Blankets, ritual, 71 -72, 88 , 222

Bodley, John, 5

Bontoc: agricultural patterns, 43

animosity toward, 88

diet, 65

religion, 229

Boserup, Ester, 41

Brookfield, Harold, 8

Bulldozers, 4 , 183 , 192 , 214

C

Caballero, Evelyn, 260

Cabbage, 95 , 119 -120, 123 , 125 , 132 , 136 , 139 , 159 , 170 , 184

Cajanus cajanus , 24

Calvinism, 241

Cancian, Frank, 243

Capital: and agricultural cooperatives, 128

bank loans, 163

bank loans and class, 155

bank loans and delinquency, 165

cultural acceptance, 235

financing from vegetable traders, 168

postwar sources, 151 -152

and religious expectations, 207 , 219 , 238

shortages in frontier zones, 186


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sources during early vegetable boom, 119

Carrots, 123 , 126 , 131 , 132 , 138 , 189

Catholicism, 219 -220

and early vegetable culture, 96

conflicts with Paganism, 229

Celery, 133 , 136 , 139

Central Cordilleran Forest Reserve, 56

Cervantes, 88

Chinese: agricultural techniques, 122

and Paganism, 232

in vegetable industry, 98 , 121 , 127 -128, 136 , 147 , 159 , 163 , 235

"Chrispas" (Christian-Pagans), 221 , 239

Christianity: and class position, 218 , 220 , 240

compromises with Paganism, 230

and gender, 220

geographic patterns, 220

judgments against Paganism, 221 -222, 240

See also Catholicism; Missionaries; Protestant churches; Religion

Clarke, William, 149

Class. See Commoners

Elite class; Social mobility; Social stratification

Class conflict, 54 , 194

Clothing, 37 , 148

Cloud forest (kalasan ), 30 , 38 , 84 , 92 , 172 , 175 , 178 , 191 -192, 236

Coffee, 27 , 55 , 134 , 179

Coinage, indigenous, 86 , 89

Commercialization: and changes in living standards, 148 -149, 169

and environmental degradation, 4 , 134 -135, 248

historical background, 88 -89, 233 -235

individualizing tendencies, 233

lure of, 170

and predicted cultural ruin, 105

and redistributive feasting, 5

and social adjustments, 135

Commoners, 46 -49

acceptance of elite domination, 80

Cooperatives, agricultural, 127 -129, 156

Copper, 83 , 93 -94

Corbridge, Stuart, 8

Corruption, military, 162 , 177

Corvee duty, 49

CPA (Cordilleran People's Alliance), 209 -210

Craft specialization, 49 , 92 -95

Credit unions, 163 , 165

"Crony capitalism," 164

Cultural ecology, 44

Cultural geography, 7

D

Dangwa Bus Company, 97 , 156 , 223

Davis, William, 151 -152

Debt: and animal husbandry, 47

and intervillage relations, 92

and ritual, 152

as "social glue," 204

and social stratification, 53 , 78 -79, 243

in vegetable trade, 158

Deforestation, 123 , 174 -176, 183

and indigenous mining, 94

Demography. See Population

DaRaedt, Carol, 155 , 169

Development Bank of the Philippines, 165

Divorce, 70

Door-yard gardens, 27 -28, 134

Dream interpretation, 63 , 76

E

Education, 53 , 100

agricultural, 97 , 141 , 144

Eisenstadt, S. N., 241

Elite class (baknang class): and agribusiness, 159 -160

change in living standards, postwar, 148

control of jural system, 76

and development of vegetable frontier, 188

and downward mobility, 157

early experimentation with vegetables, 97

financial power, 78 -79

gradations within, 49 -50, 239 -240

relations with colonial regime, 56 -57

obligation to lend, 79

participation in vegetable boom, 122

position of children, 203

practice of usury, 78

role in prewar trade, 91

as "social benefactors," 162

social organization, prewar, 49 -51

Energy crisis, 163

Environmental degradation, 5 , 135 , 161 , 174 -186, 194 , 233 , 247

See also Agricultural chemicals; Deforestation; Erosion, Water shortages; Wildlife destruction

Erosion, 124 -125, 179 , 182 -184, 190 , 196

See also Landslides

Ethnographic classification, 10 -15

Eupatorium adenophorum , 26 , 33 , 125

F

FACOMA (Farmers Cooperative Marketing Association), 127 -129, 156

Family structure: and labor organization, 125 , 150

and population growth, 172 -173

prewar patterns, 52 , 78

and religion, 218 , 223

and sharecropping, 152

Famine, 36 , 110 , 135


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Fatalism, 242

Fencing, 33 -34, 125

Fischer, Michael, 9

Fishing, 35

Forestry: conflicts with land tenure, 195 -196

postwar patterns, 174 -177

prewar patterns, 37 -38

social (agro-forestry), 178

See also Deforestation

Forests, communal, 195

Frontier, vegetable economy, 186 -193

and religion, 226

Fruit cultivation, 27 , 162 , 179 , 248

Funerals: changes in, 231

economics, 77 , 216

and luck, 74

prewar patterns, 68 -70

reburials, 69

and religious contention, 230

G

Galvey, Guillermo, 2

Gambling, 3 , 136 , 202 , 215

Gender relations: among commoners, prewar, 47 -48

changes in postwar period, 146 , 149 -150

in elite class, prewar, 49 -50

in marketing, 141

and population growth, 174

and religion, 220

symbolic representations, 69

Generational politics, 210

Gods (of Buguias), 60

anger over deforestation, 183

representations of, 95

Gold mining: American exploitation, 101

changes during war, 107

indigenous patterns, 83 , 87 , 234

postwar decline, 118 -119

prewar trade, 87 , 235

H

Haight, Guy, 96

Health and agricultural chemicals, 184

Hunting, 34 , 185

Hydroelectric dams, 175 , 205

I

Ibaloi: and commercialization, 235 -237

as ethnographic category, 12

pastoralism among, 41

religion, 225 , 229 , 236 -237

vegetable culture, 96

Idealism, 245 -246

Ifugao: agricultural patterns, 43

diet, 65

and NPA, 208

position of women among, 150

prewar trade patterns, 85 , 87

slavery, 51 , 86

tourism, 224

Ifugao province: and Cordilleran autonomy, 211

expansion of vegetable growing and deforestation, 178

market linkages, 141

vegetation, 40

Igorot, 10 , 103

intellectuals, 209 , 211

Ilocano: livestock trade, 140

as market vendors, 140 -141

in NPA, 208

and Paganism, 232

as teachers and officials, 101

trade with Buguias, 87 -88

Imperata cylindrica , 25 -26, 32

Inflation, 119 -120, 165 , 169

Inheritance, 53

Insect gathering, 35 , 185

Insecticides. See Agricultural chemicals

Ironworks, 83 , 93

Irrigation, 166 -167, 172 , 180 -181, 248

See also Water shortages

J

"Jackpot" harvest, 137 , 139

Japanese: conquest by, 107 -111

and vegetable industry, 96 , 121

Jural system (tong tongan ), 75 -76

and class, 218

and debt, 152

and forestry, 178

and land conflicts, 199 -201

litigation practices within, 75

trial by ordeal, 75

water disputes, 181

K

Kabayan, 85 , 185 , 188 , 199 , 225

Kalanguya (Kallahan): avoidance of imperial rule 102

as ethnographic category, 12

as migrant laborers, 54 , 150

in NPA, 190 , 208

and prewar trade, 85

ritual practices, 72

in vegetable economy, 189

Kalinga, 12 , 28

Kapangan, 2

Kiangan, 86 , 109 , 188 , 224

Kibungan, 225

Kikuyu grass, 31

Kowal, Norman, 38 -40

L

Labor exchange (ogbo ), 48 , 146 , 154

Labor organization: contractual patterns, 154

and gender, prewar, 47 -48

See also Elite class; Labor exchange; Migrant workers; Social stratification; Wage labor

Land dispossession, 205

"Land pirates," 198

Land speculation, 191 -192

Land tenure: American imposition, 56 -57

and class, prewar, 57 -58

conflicts over, 195 -196, 198 -200

indigenous forms, 55 -56, 255

and Philippine courts, 198

titles, 165 , 196 -197, 200

Landscape of Buguias: human transformation, 1 -2, 22 , 32 , 38 -41

and religion, 63 -64


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Landslides, 137 -138, 182

See also Erosion

La Union, 91

Law, indigenous. See Jural system

"Legal entrepreneurship," 197

Lettuce, 133 , 136 , 138

Lo-o, 15 , 85 , 91 , 109 , 122 , 138 , 141 -142, 155 , 177 , 179 , 185 , 188 , 205

Luck: beliefs regarding ancestral control, 67 , 75 -76, 138

and omens, 214

See also Sangbo

M

Magat Valley, 83

Magsaysay, Ramon, 128 , 196

Manila, vegetable market in, 128 , 140 , 159

Mankayan, 93 , 101 , 107 , 142

Marcos, Ferdinand, 164 , 175 , 196 , 208

Marcus, George, 9

Marijuana, 209

Market structure: early postwar, 140 -143

later postwar developments, 159 , 168 -169

prewar 92

seasonality, 136

See also Periodic markets; Trade

Marriage, 53 -54, 65 , 78 , 204

Martial Law, 163 , 196 , 208

Marxism, 8 , 194 , 211 , 246

Materialism, 245 -246

Migrant workers, 37 , 153 -154, 188

"Minorities, national," 205

Miscanthus sinensis , 26 , 33 , 36 -37, 40

Missionaries, 100 , 219

See also Catholicism; Protestant churches

Modernization theory, 6

Money, worship of, 222

Moral economy, 6

Mortgage (salda ), 151

Mount Data: national park, 128 , 178

vegetable district, 138 , 156 , 180

Mountain Province Development Authority, 161 , 183

Mountain Trail vegetable district: effects of typhoons on, 137

erosion, 183

expansion of vegetable cultivation from, 186

labor relations, 155

land titling, 197

ritual practices, 216 , 225

and social stratification, 147 -148

variability in precipitation, 138

as vegetable hearth, 120

water shortages, 180

Mount Pulog, 38

Multinational corporations, 143 -144, 235 , 247

Municipal governments, 100

N

Naguilian, 87 , 91

New People's Army (NPA), 168 , 176 , 186 , 190 , 208 , 248

Nonritual feasts (saliw ), 78 , 90

Northern Kankana-ey: as ethnographic category, 12

as itinerant workers, 51

as marketers, 140

rice cultivation, 28

trade with Buguias, 87 -88, 94

O

Oleoresin, 176

OMACC (Office of Muslim Affairs and Cultural Communities), 199 , 205

Omens, 14 -15, 59 , 77

See also Luck; Sangbo

P

Paganism; acknowledgment of Christian prayer by, 231

Buguias as modern center of, 2 , 227 -228, 237

contempt for outward trappings of wealth, 222 -223

and contraception, 174

criticism of Christianity, 240

future of, 232

grounds for belief, 76 -77

ideology and economics, 7 , 73 , 213 -219, 238 -239, 241

particularism, 223

and redistribution, 78

and theories of disease, 61

variations within, 239 -240

See also Ancestor worship; Religion; Rituals

Pagan priest (mambunung ), 60 -62, 229

Pangasinan, 91

Pasture management, 31 -34

See also Animal husbandry

Peas, 97 , 133 , 189

Peasantry. See Social formation

Periodic markets: and decline of Buguias Central, 140

new development, 189

and road development, 143

Pesticides. See Agricultural chemicals

Polanyi, Karl, 9

Political ecology, 7 -8, 247

Political geography, 14 -15

and rivalries within Buguias, 206

and road construction, 191

and social conflict, 194

Politics: campaigns and social class, 207

local organization, 205 -207

and 1986 election, 211

position of women, 150

See also Political geography; NPA; Social conflict

Population: growth trends, 171 -172

local attitudes toward growth, 172 -173

prewar patterns, 42 -43

Potatoes, 95 , 119 , 126 -127, 132

Prestige feast, graded (Pedit ), 65 -66,


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207 , 215 -219, 237

See also Paganism; Rituals

Protestant churches, 219 -220, 231

R

Recession, economic: of the 1940s, 126

of the 1970s, 161 , 164

Recreation, 203

Redistribution and social cohesion, 5 , 207 , 215 , 238

Religion: changes in practices, 216

conflicts between Pagans and Christians, 229 -230

geographical patterns, 224 -227, 235 -238

and political conflict, 206 -207, 211 -212

and social stratification, 207 , 215 -219

See also Catholicism; Paganism; Protestantism; Ritual expenditure; Rituals

Rice, 28 -30, 42

varieties planted, 29 , 77

geographical distribution and trade, 85

decline of cultivation, 124

Rice beer, 1 , 28 , 36 , 64 , 66 , 123

Risk taking, 131 , 136 , 138 , 239

Ritual adviser (mankotom ), 72 , 76 , 227 , 229 , 237

Ritual expenditure: and Christianity, 221

and control of luck, 215

and education, 224

and economics, 77 -78, 213 -219, 238 -244

and legitimation of wealth, 218

Ritual inflation, 5 , 216

Ritual experts, 67 , 71 , 73

accusations of wrongdoing leveled against, 222

payments to, 77 , 215

See also Pagan priest; Ritual adviser; Spirit medium

"Ritual regulation," 246

Rituals: curing and blessing, 62

dancing, 66

divorce, 70

fertility, 70

trances in, 67

sanctity of, 222

See also Paganism; Prestige feast

Roads: construction, 126

contracting, 157

and deforestation, 178 , 186

dendritic patterns, 143

early development, 97

and the economic decline of Buguias, 118

expansion and market change, 141

and expansion of the vegetable frontier, 178 , 189 -190

and the NPA, 208

and political conflict, 206

Rosaldo, Renato, 10

Ruppert, David, 141

Russell, Susan, 152 , 157 , 167 , 216

S

Sagada, 6 , 178

Sangbo (sign of good luck), 63 , 76 , 214 , 239

See also Luck; Omens

Scott, James, 6

Seasonality, climatic, 24 -25, 129 , 130 , 132 , 136

and labor organization, 48

Semper, Carl, 67 , 93

Servant class, 51

Shanin, Teodor, 243

Sharecropping, 152 , 188

Slavery, 50 , 86

Social conflict, 75 , 115 , 194 , 202 -204

Social formation, debate on, 244 -245

Social mobility: and ancestral favor, 81

downfall of elite couples, 157

Ibaloi and Southern Kankana-ey patterns compared, 237

and marriage patterns, 52

prewar patterns, 52 -54

and Pagan ideology, 71 , 229

and ritual investments, 157 , 243

Social stratification: American understanding, 104

changes during postwar period, 147 -148

and landscape change, 54

and land tenure, 57 -58, 153

and local politics, 207

prewar patterns, 45 -55

and religious geography, 236 -237

and religious practices, 59 , 78

and ritual feasting, 215 -219, 240 , 243

and road development, 190

within spirit world, 80 -81

Soil, 24 , 28 , 130 -131

Solanum nigrum , 36

Spanish colonial regime, 98 -99

ethnographic categorizations, 12

impressions of Cordilleran peoples, 103

political geographical organization, 13

and social stratification, 234

tribute requirements, 99

Spirit medium (mansib-ok ), 62 , 215 , 227

Spirits, dangerous (anitos ), 60

See also Rituals

"Spiritual empiricism," 207 , 223 -224, 238

Squash, 166

Status display: and heirlooms, 53

prewar patterns, 70 -71

Subsistence cropping: "affluence" in, 148

contrasted with commercial agriculture, 169 -170

dismal memories of 170

impossibility of return to, 248

postwar decline, 115

prewar patterns, 22 -38

sectoral division, 22

spatial patterns, 2

survival, 123 , 134

sustainability, 44

Suyoc, 80 , 87 , 91 , 93 , 101 , 118 , 139

Sweet potatoes, 21 , 23 , 27 , 31 , 36 , 42 , 85 , 94 , 123 , 209

Swidden agriculture, 23 -27


280

and forestry, 176

transition to vegetable cultivation, 123

Syncretic movements, 226

T

Tagalog merchants, 144 , 159 , 168

Taro, 28

Tax declarations: establishment, 56 -57, 126 , 191

and land conflicts, 200 -201 Terraces: bench terracing, 183

destruction during war, 101

as investments, 248

pond-field, 28 -29

as private property, 55 -56

use in vegetable cultivation, 123 -124

Themeda triandra , 26 , 32 , 254

Tinoc, 83 , 91 , 118 , 189 , 204 , 209

Tithonia maxima , 26 , 29

Topography: description of, 21 -22

and erosion, 182

microhabitats, 117 , 129

and trade, 83 -84

Toponyms, 65

Toraja, 243

Toulmin, Stephen, 245

Trade: "Buy and sell," 85 , 156

of copperware, 94 -95

historical background, 82 -83

and physical geography, 83 , 84

postwar system, 149 -150

prewar system, 83 -88, 92

role in fostering commercial attitudes, 234

and social relations, 83 -88, 234 -235

transformation of animal trade, 140

See also Vegetable trade

Transportation. See Roads; Vegetable trade; Vehicles

Tuba, 197

Tucucan, 83 , 109 , 118 , 189

Typhoons, 36 , 131 , 135 , 137 , 182

U

United States military: and road construction, 208

role in early vegetable boom, 120

as vegetable market, 143

See also American colonialists

V

Vegetable cultivation: agricultural techniques, 122 -124

conflicts with pastoralism, 124 -126

connections with global economy, 143 -144

cro protation, 133 -134

expansion, 186 -190

exploitation of microhabitats, 117 , 129

geograhical patterns, 122 , 166

historical precedents, 85 -89

innovations, 161

insurance strategies, 139

introduction of new crops, 126 , 166

postwar boom, 119

scale, 160

seed procurement, 144

serial plantings, 139

soil, 130 -131

strategies, 117

technological change, 166 , 181

varieties, 131 -134

Vegetable trade, 158 -159

and agribusiness, 159 -160

development, 155 -157

portage, 154 , 202 -203,

price fluctuations, 4 , 137

transformations, 167 -169

Vegetation change, 38 -41

See also Landscape of Buguias

Vehicles, 140 , 155 -156, 158 , 168 , 189

Vigna sinensis , 24

Volckmann, R. W., 107

Voss, Joachim, 6 , 154 , 235

W

Wage labor: change in wage structure, 147

in prewar trade, 89

replacement of cooperative exchange, 154

traditional form (dangas ), 48 -49, 51 , 146 , 154

Watershed protection, 196

Water shortages, 167 , 180 -182, 193 , 227

Water spirits (timungao ), 61 , 64 , 80

Watts, Michael, 4

Weber, Max, 240 -242

Wedding ceremony, 65

Wild foods, 36

Wildlife destruction, 185 -186

Witchcraft, 51 , 75

Worcester, Dean C., 12 , 99

Work ethic, 239 , 241

World War II, 107 -111

guerilla fighting, 108

social and ecological consequences, 109 -111

Y

Yamashita, Tomoyuki, 108 -109

Youth culture, 173 , 202 -204


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