A Mountain of Difference: The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao

by Oona Paredes

Book Overview

A Mountain of Difference recasts the early colonial encounter between the indigenous Lumad and Christian missionaries in the southern Philippines. This groundbreaking study of the Lumad--the non-Muslim native peoples of Mindanao--draws on Spanish archival sources and indigenous oral traditions to reconceptualize the political and cultural history of the island's "upland" minorities.While Lumad peoples are widely believed to have successfully resisted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877277613
• ISBN13: 9780877277613
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher