Living in a Lean-To: Philippine Negrito Foragers in Transition

by Navin K. Rai

University of Michigan Press, 1990
eISBN: 978-1-949098-92-1 | Paper: 978-0-915703-17-3
Library of Congress Classification GN2.M5 no. 80
Dewey Decimal Classification 306

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this ethnographic study of the Agta, hunter-gatherers in the tropical rain forest of northeastern Luzon in the Philippines, Navin K. Rai documents a traditional society struggling to survive as their forest home is destroyed by outside forces. Foreword by Karl L. Hutterer.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of Appendices

Foreword

Preface

Note on Orthography

Part I. Introduction

1. The People

2. The Perspective

3. The Setting

Part II. The Traditional World

4. The Natural Environment

5. The Social Groupings

6. The Forest Orientation

7. The Social Circumscription

Part III. The Transitional World

8. The Changes

9. The Economic Transition

10. The Consequences

Part IV. Conclusions

11. Summary

12. The Agta Future

Chapter Notes

References Cited

Plates

Appendices

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