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Politics, property and law in the Philippine uplands / Melanie G. Wiber.

By: Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfred Laurier University Press, ©1993Description: xxii, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 0889202222 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 333.31599/W63
LOC classification:
  • DS666.I12 W53 1993
Contents:
Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; ONE: Setting the Stage; TWO: "Primitive" Property Systems: Theoretical Issues; THREE: From Gold to the Cross: Historical Transformations, 1591-1930; FOUR: The Ethnographic Quartet; FIVE: Property Dispute: A Study of Consequences in Legal Pluralism; SIX: Modern Property Relations; SEVEN: Getting Things Straight: Demystifying Property Relations; EIGHT: Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index.
Summary: The Ibaloi village of Kabayan Poblacion combines a subsistence agricultural economy with a market economy that has grown up as a result of subsequent waves of colonization. The Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century, following the trail of gold and slave-bearing Chinese trade junks, and were followed in 1898 by the Americans. The Ibaloi, who were gold miners and traders, cattle barons and vegetable producers, have since then come to be known as an Hispanicized uplands people, acculturated to Western ways and struggling to come to grips with new economic realities. This book examines the I.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-158) and index.

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; ONE: Setting the Stage; TWO: "Primitive" Property Systems: Theoretical Issues; THREE: From Gold to the Cross: Historical Transformations, 1591-1930; FOUR: The Ethnographic Quartet; FIVE: Property Dispute: A Study of Consequences in Legal Pluralism; SIX: Modern Property Relations; SEVEN: Getting Things Straight: Demystifying Property Relations; EIGHT: Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index.

The Ibaloi village of Kabayan Poblacion combines a subsistence agricultural economy with a market economy that has grown up as a result of subsequent waves of colonization. The Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century, following the trail of gold and slave-bearing Chinese trade junks, and were followed in 1898 by the Americans. The Ibaloi, who were gold miners and traders, cattle barons and vegetable producers, have since then come to be known as an Hispanicized uplands people, acculturated to Western ways and struggling to come to grips with new economic realities. This book examines the I.

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