Thomas M. McKenna

American anthropologist whose fieldwork in Cotabato City in the 1980s produced the standard ethnography of Maguindanaon politics, and who later told the story of Cotabato’s wartime guerrillas.

2 books on the shelf

1998Free to read
Muslim Rulers and Rebels
Thomas M. McKenna
University of California Press
An anthropologist’s account, from years in Cotabato City, of how ordinary Maguindanaons lived the rebellion, the datus and the state, and why the separatist story and the everyday one do not match. Free to read in the University of California Press e-books collection.
2022In print
Moro Warrior
Thomas M. McKenna
Armin Lear Press
The Moro guerrillas of Cotabato and Lanao in the Second World War, led by Edward Kuder’s foster son Mohammad Adil and the American schoolteacher himself, pieced together from their papers and the memories of those who fought.

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