
Knowledge and Passion
Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 31. March 1980
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Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-521-29562-8 (ISBN)
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Michelle Rosaldo presents an ethnographic interpretation of the life of the Ilongots, a group of some 3,500 hunters and horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines. Her study focuces on headhunting, a practice that remained active among the Ilongots until at least 1972. Indigenous notions of 'knowledge' and 'passion' are crucial to the Ilongots' perceptions of their own social practices of headhunting, oratory, marriage, and the organization of subsistence labour. In explaining the significance of these key ideas, Professor Rosaldo examines what she considers to be the most important dimensions of Ilongot social relationships: the contrasts between men and women and between accomplished married men and bachelor youths. By defining 'knowledge' and 'passion' in the context of their social and affective significance, the author demonstrates the place of headhunting in historical and political processes, and shows the relation between headhunting and indigenous concepts of curing, reproduction, and health. Theoretically oriented toward interpretive of symbolic ethnography, this book clarifies some of the ways in which the study of a language - both vocabulary and patterns of usage - is a study of a culture; the process of translation is presented as a method of cultural interpretation. Professor Rosaldo argues that an appreciation of the Ilongots' specific notions of 'the self' and the emotional concepts associated with headhunting can illuminate central aspects of the group's social life.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
496 gr
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978-0-521-29562-8 (9780521295628)
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Content
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Ilongots; 3. Knowledge, passion, and the heart; 3. Knowledge, identity, and order in an egalitarian world; 4. Horticulture, hunting, and the 'height' of men's hearts; 5. Headhunting: a tale of 'fathers', 'brothers,' and 'sons'; 6. Negotiating anger: oratory and the knowledge of adults; 7. Conclusion: self and social life; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.