...The Manobo of The Philippines A cluster profile covering 8 Manobo tribes. The Manobo are several people groups who inhabit the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. They speak one of the languages belonging to the Manobo language family. Their origins can be traced back to the early Malay peoples, who came from the surrounding islands of Southeast Asia. Today, their common cultural language and Malay heritage help to keep them connected. The Manobo cluster includes eight groups: the Cotabato Manobo, Agusan Manobo, Dibabawon Manobo, Matig Salug Manobo, Sarangani Manobo, Manobo of Western Bukidnon, Obo Manobo, and Tagabawa Manobo. Their populations range from less than 15,000 to more than 50,000. The groups are often connected by name with either political divisions or landforms. The Bukidnons, for example, are located in a province of the same name. The Agusans, who live near the Agusan River Valley, are named according to their location. The eight Manobo groups are all very similar, differing only in dialect and in some aspects of culture. The distinctions have resulted from their separation. What are their lives like? The most common lifestyle of the Manobo is one of rural agriculture. Unfortunately, their farming methods are very primitive. For example, the Bukidnon grow maize and rice as their principal crops. Some of the farmers have incorporated plowing techniques, while others have continued to use the "slash-and-burn" method. The Cotabato use a farming system...
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...INTRODUCTION According to Opena (1985), Manobo is a generic term which refers to people who are still in the subsistence level economy and are generally in the mountains and who practice the slash and burn agriculture. Further she qualified that the term Manobo is very derogatory for it connotes to be backward, uncivilized, ignorant, boisterous, unwashed, unkept, rough and lawless. Hence, she opined that the use of the term must be used with discreetness, tact and prudence. The term can also mean a slave (magdul) or a person destined to do all the menial jobs in the house and farm. According to Elkins (1977) the Manobo belongs to the original stock of proto-Philippines or proto-Austronesian people who came from South China thousands of years ago. He later coined the term Manobo to designate the stock of aboriginal non-negeritoid people of Mindanao. They mostly inhabit the hinterlands of Bukidnon specifically on the boundaries of Agusan, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao and Misamis Oriental (NCIP,2003). The Western Manobos are in the Southwestern part of Bukidnon in Mulita, Kalilangan and Pangantucan. These people speak a quaint language with Marawi influence which cannot be understood by other ethnic groups in Bukidnon. Marriage is traditionally by parental arrangement, which begins when each of the two families chooses a spokesperson, preferably a datu or bai, who is known for eloquence and knowledge of custom law. Marriage is an alliance system in which reciprocity and mutual...
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...There is an ancient Manobo legend which tells of how a god created man to be immortal. The legend says that immortality was lost when a bird exchanged man's "life breath" for a mere peice of kemp string. For generations the Manobo have learned from childhood that no one has been raised to heaven. Still they hope to leave this world of poverty, sickness, hunger and death for the bliss of heaven. Today some villages are experiencing the joy of knowing Jesus who was raised to heaven by the power of the true and living God. Ethnicity There are about 25 tribal groups, linguistically grouped under the "Manobo" family. Language The Manobo have 24 main dialects. The following six groups are more closely related than others since their dialects are related. They include the Ata or Langilan Manobo, Talaingod, Matig-Salug, Tigwa, Dibabawon and Umayamnon. Population The population of the combined groups totals over 100,000. Location The island of Mindanao is the second largest of the Philippines archipelago with a land area of 36,505 square miles and the most recent of the major islands to be developed. It is often referred to as the "Land of Promise." The majority of the Manobo are located in the Central Mountains of the island and are seldom found in lowland towns except for going there to trade. Recently, however, many young people have made their way to the urban centers in search of work. Culture For hundreds of years these tribes roamed the valleys and mountains, doing slash-and-burn...
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...THE MANOBO TRIBE The Manobo are several people groups who inhabit the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. They speak one of the languages belonging to the Manobo language family. Their origins can be traced back to the early Malay peoples, who came from the surrounding islands of Southeast Asia. Today, their common cultural language and Malay heritage help to keep them connected. The Manobo cluster includes eight groups: the Cotabato Manobo, Agusan Manobo, Dibabawon Manobo, Matig Salug Manobo, Sarangani Manobo, Manobo of Western Bukidnon, Obo Manobo, and Tagabawa Manobo. Their populations range from less than 15,000 to more than 50,000. The groups are often connected by name with either political divisions or landforms. The Bukidnons, for example, are located in a province of the same name. The Agusans, who live near the Agusan River Valley, are named according to their location. The eight Manobo groups are all very similar, differing only in dialect and in some aspects of culture. The distinctions have resulted from their separation. The most common lifestyle of the Manobo is one of rural agriculture. Unfortunately, their farming methods are very primitive. For example, the Bukidnon grow maize and rice as their principal crops. Some of the farmers have incorporated plowing techniques, while others have continued to use the "slash-and-burn" method. The Cotabato use a farming system called kaingin. This is a procedure in which fields are allowed to remain fallow for...
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...MANOBO Kasaysayan at Pinagmulan Sino at ano nga ba ang nga Manobo? Saan ba talaga sila nagmula at anu-ano ang kanilang mga kaugalian na magpahanggang ngayon ay patuloy pa ring umiiral sa komunidad? Yan at ilan pang mga tanong ang balak at gustong sagutin ng blog na ito. Sisimulan natin sa kung ano ba ang ibig sabihin ng salitang "Manobo".Maraming mga sagot patungkol sa kung ano nga ba talaga ang ibig sabihin ng salitang Manobo. Ang isa ay nagsasabing: ang Manobo ay nangangahulugang 'tao' o 'mga tao';ikalawa ay ito raw ay nagmula sa salitang "Mansuba" mula sa salitang 'man' na nangangahulugang 'tao' at 'suba' na ang ibig sabihin ay 'ilog',ibig sabihin ang salitang "Mansuba" ay nangangahuligang "taong ilog" sapagkat karamihan sa kanila ay makikitang nakatira sa tabi ng mga ilog;ang ikatlo ay nagsasabi na ito raw ay nagmula sa salitang "Banobo", isang creek na kasalukuyang dumadaloy sa Ilog Pulange dalawang kilometro pababa ng Cotabato City;at ang ikaapat ay nagsasabi na ito ay galing sa salitang "man" na ang ibig sabihin naman ay "first o aboriginal" at "tuvu" na ang ibig sabihin ay "pagtubo o paglaki". Ang mga manobo ay nagmula sa mga taong lagalag mula sa kanlurang bahagi ng Tsina. Karamihan sa kanila ay nakatira sa tabing-ilog, tabi ng mga burol at sa talampas sa maraming bahagi ng Mindanao. Sinasabing sila ay unang nanirahan sa mga lambak ng Ilog Pulangi subalit naghiwa-hiwalay sa pagdating ni Shariff Kabungsuan dahil sa pagtanggi ng ilan sa relihiyong Islam. ...
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...INTRODUCTION According to Opena (1985), Manobo is a generic term which refers to people who are still in the subsistence level economy and are generally in the mountains and who practice the slash and burn agriculture. Further she qualified that the term Manobo is very derogatory for it connotes to be backward, uncivilized, ignorant, boisterous, unwashed, unkept, rough and lawless. Hence, she opined that the use of the term must be used with discreetness, tact and prudence. The term can also mean a slave (magdul) or a person destined to do all the menial jobs in the house and farm. According to Elkins (1977) the Manobo belongs to the original stock of proto-Philippines or proto-Austronesian people who came from South China thousands of years ago. He later coined the term Manobo to designate the stock of aboriginal non-negeritoid people of Mindanao. They mostly inhabit the hinterlands of Bukidnon specifically on the boundaries of Agusan, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao and Misamis Oriental (NCIP,2003). The Western Manobos are in the Southwestern part of Bukidnon in Mulita, Kalilangan and Pangantucan. These people speak a quaint language with Marawi influence which cannot be understood by other ethnic groups in Bukidnon. Marriage is traditionally by parental arrangement, which begins when each of the two families chooses a spokesperson, preferably a datu or bai, who is known for eloquence and knowledge of custom law. Marriage is an alliance system in which reciprocity and mutual...
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...research, although it was fairly short I’ve learned a lot about the Lumad people (the Visayan word collectively used for all indigenous people in Mindanao). We spent most of the week with a Manobo community high in the mountains of San Fernando municipality. The Manobo people are just one of the 18 Lumad groups found in Mindanao; however, they have a number of subgroups with slight language differences and practices. The different Manobo tribes are semi-autonomous from the Philippine government and have their own laws, practices and judgements given by tribal chieftains (Datus). To explore on the food preparation and cooking skills of Manobo people most families in this community depend on root crops and what is caught in the forest for their food. However, food can sometimes be scarce so often times dried fish and rice has to be bought in the barangay market (5km down the mountain). Inside this research are instances of their cooking practices, on how they prepare on their food. The upland Manobo practise swidden or slash-burn farming whereas those inhabiting the valleys practise wet-rice farming. Rice culture is so central to the Manobo way of life that there are more than 60 different names for rice varieties, and all agricultural rituals center around it. In the late 190s, however many Manobo groups shifted to corn culture because of the gradual disappearance of swidden sites. Besides corn grit, other supplementary foods are sweet potatoes and cassava. In times of famine, emergency...
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...MANOBO TRIBE In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For History 1 Presented to: ERNIE LEX DANGO DELA SALDE, MPA Instructor Presented by: GLADYS GAY OPOSA ARIS May 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title Page i Table of Contents ii I. Background of the Tribe II. Traditions and Customary Practices III. Politics, Government and Laws IV. Education, livelihood and Economic System V. Challenges and Problems VI. Access to National (Philippine ) Government Services Recommendation Reference I. Background of the Tribe “Manobo” or “Manuvu” means “person” or people”, it may also have been originally “Mansuba” from man (person or people) and “Suba” or “river”, hence meaning “river people”. A third derivation is from “Banobo”, the name of the creek that presently flows to Pulangi River about 2 km below Cotabato City. A fourth is from “man” meaning “first,aboriginal” and tuvu” meaning “grow,growth”. “Manobo” is the hispanized formed. Oral tradition and records about the introduction of Islam into Mindanao give us a clue to the history of pre-Spanish Manobo. Their ancestors inhabited the lower valley of the Pulangi River in central Mindanao. In the 14th century, Sharif Kabungsuan...
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...research, although it was fairly short I’ve learned a lot about the Lumad people (the Visayan word collectively used for all indigenous people in Mindanao). We spent most of the week with a Manobo community high in the mountains of San Fernando municipality. The Manobo people are just one of the 18 Lumad groups found in Mindanao; however, they have a number of subgroups with slight language differences and practices. The different Manobo tribes are semi-autonomous from the Philippine government and have their own laws, practices and judgements given by tribal chieftains (Datus). To explore on the food preparation and cooking skills of Manobo people most families in this community depend on root crops and what is caught in the forest for their food. However, food can sometimes be scarce so often times dried fish and rice has to be bought in the barangay market (5km down the mountain). Inside this research are instances of their cooking practices, on how they prepare on their food. The upland Manobo practise swidden or slash-burn farming whereas those inhabiting the valleys practise wet-rice farming. Rice culture is so central to the Manobo way of life that there are more than 60 different names for rice varieties, and all agricultural rituals center around it. In the late 190s, however many Manobo groups shifted to corn culture because of the gradual disappearance of swidden sites. Besides corn grit, other supplementary foods are sweet potatoes and cassava. In times of famine, emergency...
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...CARAGA STATE UNIVERSITY AMPAYON, BUTUAN CITY Importance of Music in Early Education Submitted to: Mrs. Flordelez U. Saspa Instructor Submitted by: Campos,Cristine Q. Nakila,Phoebe kates Quimay,Maria Salome Bagsarsa,Marlyn Balagon,Jessa Abanil,Bliss Lubaino,Josephine Gamolo,Junric Day-om,Richard Hijada,Edgar March 2013 ...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top 10 Richest Men in the Philippines of 2010 People say that the Philippine economy is bad but these ten persons who would say otherwise. Find out who made it to the list of the Top 10 Richest Men in the Philippines for 2010, learn from them, and be inspired with their success stories. Henry Sy Being the owner of the SM Group of Companies, who wouldn’t know Henry Sy? For four years in a row, he has been number 1 in the list of the richest men in the Philippines. In 2010, he continued to expand his investments to other industries such as leisure, banking and financial services, and commercial property development in very strategic locations. All his businesses compliment each other so well that his net worth went up to 38 billion USD from only 5 billion USD in 2009. Lucio Tan The government ads that discourage people to smoke and the issues that happened to some of Lucio Tan’s businesses might have affected his income in 2010 but he is still one of the most prominent business magnates in the country. From being an ordinary employee, he is now the owner of the largest tobacco company in the Philippines,Fortune Tobacco. He also expanded his investments to different fields. Among his well-known businesses are Asia Brewery (the 2nd largest brewer in the Philippines), Tanduay Holdings (one of the world's largest rum makers), Philippine Airlines, Philippine National Bank, and Allied Bank. Like the other tycoons, he also ventured...
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...INTRODUCTION Every language is different; however, it is likely the grammatical structures that make the languages similar. In contrasting the similarities and differences of two or more languages, the common term in applied linguistics is contrastive analysis. Contrastive analysis investigates the differences between pairs (or small sets) of languages against the background of similarities and with the purpose of providing input to applied disciplines such as foreign language teaching and translation studies. With its largely descriptive focus contrastive linguistics provides an interface between theory and application. It makes use of theoretical findings and models of language description but is driven by the objective of applicability (Gast, n.d). This research is an attempt to reveal the verb phrase structures of the two languages; Kagan Language of Kalagan people in Davao City and Minanubo Language in Agusan. Toyibatun (2011) stated that in English is a verb or a word used to say something about some person, place or thing (Wren & Martin, 1995:3) example: The girl wrote a letter to her cousin. Some verbs consist of one of more than one word. Even so, these verbs are still simple predicate of a sentence. When a verb is made up of more than one word, it is called a verb phrase (John, 1982:15). Kalagan Language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian group of languages and is part of Davawenyo family. Older Kalagan speakers, for instance, continue to use their native...
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..."Manobo" or "Manuvu" means "person" or "people"; it may also have been originally "Mansuba" from man (person or people) and suba (river), hence meaning "river people." A third derivation is from "Banobo," the name of a creek that presently flows to Pulangi River about 2 km below Cotabato City. A fourth is from "man" meaning "first, aboriginal" and "tuvu" meaning "grow, growth." Manobo " is the hispanized form. The Manobo Belong to the original stock of proto-Philippine or proto-Austronesian people who came from South China thousands of years ago, earlier than the Ifugao and other terrace-building peoples of the northern Luzon. Ethnolinguist Richard Elkins(1966)coined the term "Proto-Manobo" to designate this stock of aboriginal non-Negritoid people of Mindanao. The first Manobo settlers lived in northern Mindanao: Camiguin, Cagayan, and some areas of Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental. Subgroups are: Agusan-Surigao, Ata, Bagobo, Banwaon, Blit, Bukidnon, Cotabato(which include the Arumanen, Kirintekan, and Livunganen), Dibabawon, Higaonon, Ilianon, Kulamanen, Manuvu, Matigsalug, Rajah Kabungsuan, Sarangani, Tboli, Tagabawa, Tigwa, Ubo, Umayamnon, and western Bukidnon. Manobo languages representative of these groups are Agusanon, Banwaon, Binukid of Mindanao, Cagayano of Cagayancillo Island, Cotabato Manobo, Dibabawon Manobo, Eatern Davao Manobo, Ilianon Manobo, Kidapawan, Kinamigin of Camiguin Island, Livunganen, Magahat, Sarangani Manobo, Southern Cotabato and Davao Manobo, Tasaday...
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...Enhancing Access and Control to Sustainable Livelihood Assets of the Manobo Tribe through Improved and Strengthened Selfgovernance of the Ancestral Territory – Effectiveness Review Full Technical Report Photo credit: PBPF Oxfam GB Women’s Empowerment Outcome Indicator June, 2012 Table of Contents Executive Summary...................................................................................................................... 1 1.0 Introduction and Purpose ....................................................................................................... 2 2.0 Intervention Logic of the Enhancing Access and Control to Sustainable Livelihood Assets Project ......................................................................................................................................... 3 3.0 Impact Assessment Design...................................................................................................... 5 3.1 Limitations in Pursuing the ‘Gold Standard’ ................................................................................. 5 3.2 Alternative Evaluation Design Pursued......................................................................................... 5 3.3 Intervention and Comparison Villages Surveyed .......................................................................... 7 4.0 Methods of Data Collection and Analysis ................................................................................ 8 4.1 Data Collection...
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...l Subject: MAPEH (MUSIC) TOPIC: MUSIC OF VISAYAS VISAYAS MUSIC The Visayas region is situated between the islands of Luzon and Mindanao. Well-known provinces in this region include Iloilo, Cebu, Negros Occidental/Oriental, Samar, Leyte and Bohol. It is the home to some of the Philippines' best singers like Pilita Corales, Dulce, and Sheryn Regis. Most Visayan songs or music are written in duple or triple meter with a simple melody that is easy to sing. Folk songs like Si Pilemon, Pakitong-kitong, Ili-ili Tulog Anay, Rosas Padan and Matud Nila originated from this region. The long list of Visayan folk songs includes lullabies, working songs, harana and children's songs. Here are example of Visayan folk songs: *Children's song - Ilo nga Bata *Drinking song- Condansoy *Working song - Si Pilemon *Epic song - Kandu *Serenade song - Matud Nila *Debate song - Balitaw *Nonsense song- Pakitong-kitong Pinalangga Ko is a children's song that tells of how the child is loved and well-taken care of by his parents. One of the most popular musical styles in the Visayan region is the balitaw. The balitaw is a song-and-dance debate between a man and a woman that deals with topics about love and marriage. In the Negros province, the Managsaon is a very popular music. It is a kind of fresh epic where two groups of singers sing in a chanting manner using the call-response style. Here are...
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