open access books about negritos
Tessa minter: The agta of the Northern Sierra Madre
Summary and material extracted from Leiden University Repository. To read the book, click on the cover or here.
The Agta are a hunter-gatherer people inhabiting the last remaining tropical rain forest on the island of Luzon, in the north-eastern Philippines. Due to commercial logging operations, immigration and conversion of forest into agricultural land, the Agta's resource base has come under increasing pressure over the past century. This ethnography analyses the way the Agta respond to these social and environmental changes. It shows that they face great problems with respect to health, nutrition, control over resources and participation in decisionmaking processes. It also shows, however, that by maintaining economic and residential flexibility and diversification, they succeed in continuing a hunter-gatherer way of life.
Author : Tessa Minter
The Agta are a hunter-gatherer people inhabiting the last remaining tropical rain forest on the island of Luzon, in the north-eastern Philippines. Due to commercial logging operations, immigration and conversion of forest into agricultural land, the Agta's resource base has come under increasing pressure over the past century. This ethnography analyses the way the Agta respond to these social and environmental changes. It shows that they face great problems with respect to health, nutrition, control over resources and participation in decisionmaking processes. It also shows, however, that by maintaining economic and residential flexibility and diversification, they succeed in continuing a hunter-gatherer way of life.
Author : Tessa Minter
Laura robinson: microphone in the mud
Summary and material extracted from Journal Language Documentation & Conservation. To read the book click on the cover or here.
"A young woman battles armed terrorists, a kidnapper, malaria, a tsunami, and dial-up internet as she documents the endangered languages of hunter-gatherers in the jungles of the Philippines."
Laura C. Robinson is a visiting assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her research interests include documentation of endangered languages and reconstructing linguistic prehistory. In addition to conducting linguistic fieldwork in the northern Philippines and eastern Indonesia, she has also written a grammar of Dupaningan Agta, spoken in the northern Philippines. She is currently working on reconstructing the linguistic prehistory of the languages of the Alor archipelago in eastern Indonesia.
"A young woman battles armed terrorists, a kidnapper, malaria, a tsunami, and dial-up internet as she documents the endangered languages of hunter-gatherers in the jungles of the Philippines."
Laura C. Robinson is a visiting assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her research interests include documentation of endangered languages and reconstructing linguistic prehistory. In addition to conducting linguistic fieldwork in the northern Philippines and eastern Indonesia, she has also written a grammar of Dupaningan Agta, spoken in the northern Philippines. She is currently working on reconstructing the linguistic prehistory of the languages of the Alor archipelago in eastern Indonesia.
