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American anthropologist who lived with the Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi in the 1960s and returned to write their full ethnography.

1972Out of print
The Sea People of SuluH. Arlo Nimmo
Chandler Publishing
The boat-dwelling Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi in the 1960s and the changes already reaching them, from the anthropologist who lived among them.

1994Out of print
The Songs of Salanda and Other Stories of SuluH. Arlo Nimmo
University of Washington Press
Stories of the Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi, written by the anthropologist who lived among them, from what he saw and was told.

2001In print
MagosahaH. Arlo Nimmo
Ateneo de Manila University Press
Nimmo’s return to the Sama Dilaut three decades on: the full ethnography of a people who had by then mostly come ashore.