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Magosaha
An Ethnology of the Tawi-Tawi Sama Dilaut
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 261
- ISBN
- 9789715503693
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
Nimmo’s return to the Sama Dilaut three decades on: the full ethnography of a people who had by then mostly come ashore.
Magosaha sums up H. Arlo Nimmo's research among the Sama Dilaut, the boat-dwelling Sama of the Tawi-Tawi islands. Earlier writers, Nimmo among them, called these people "Badjau" or sea gypsies; in this book he uses the name Sama Dilaut. He first did fieldwork with them in the 1960s, and returned in 1977, 1982 and 1997.
The book records Sama Dilaut boats and houseboats, fishing, households and kin, the yearly round, ritual, shamans, the care of the dead and the honouring of ancestors. Its main argument is about change over 4 decades. The trade in sea and forest products, the spread of Islam, armed rebellion and military occupation together cost the Sama Dilaut much of their material culture, above all their boat-houses and old ways of fishing. They kept, the book finds, their own view of the world and their ties to their ancestors.
Kathleen Nadeau, reviewing it in the Journal of Asian Studies, called it the culmination of Nimmo's life's work. Yale's Human Relations Area Files rates it as excellent primary data.
From ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu, cambridge.org, archium.ateneo.edu, archive.org.
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