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Taming the Wind.
Ethno-Cultural History on the Ivatan of the Batanes Isles



 


 

Table of Contents
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Preface

ix
Taming the Islands, the Sea and the Wind

1
Brief Ethnographic History of the Ivatan of Batanes province, Northern Philippines

11
Ivatan Social Organization at the Spanish Contact According to Fr. Balthazar Calderon, O.P., and Fr. Bartholome Artiguez, O.P.

43
The Traditional Ivatan House: A Historical Survey

57
Fishing the Traditional Way

85
The Favor of the Gods: Two rituals from Northern Luzon

109
Classical Ivatan Social Dynamics and Coping-Change and Solutions as Problems

119
Reforestation in Traditional Ivatan Yam Cultivation: Simultaneous Conservation and Use of the Ecosystem

135
Readings and Reflections on Ivatan Oral Poetry

157
Ethnomedicine of the Isabtangs

173
Death and After Death: Ivatan Beliefs and Practices

231
The World and the Ways of the Ivatan Añitu

253
Principal Events that Happened in the Batanes Islands from 1898 to 1899

293
Leadership/People Mutual Alienation as cause of Peace Breakdown: A Historical Case Study of the Batanes Case at the Turn of the 19th Century

317
History of a Split Culture: The Ivatan Case

353
Stone in Batanes Cultural History

371
The Four Oldest Batanes Churches

394
   
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