Taming Philippine Headhunters

A Study of Government and of Cultural Change in Northern Luzon

Felix M. Keesing, Marie Keesing

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040341254
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

In the high mountains and jungles of the northern Philippines lived a quarter of a million people, Malayan, Indonesian and Pygmy. These so-called 'non-Christians', differing widely in life and custom, were little touched by Western-style culture and government until the twentieth century. Taming Philippine Headhunters (1934) reveals the special system of government worked out by the American colonial authorities and Filipino leaders to approach the peoples of the mountain region, the issues – political, economic, social, religious and educational – and their assimilation with the Christian Filipinos of the lowlands. The book finishes with an analysis of their likely destiny should the Philippines achieve their independence from the US.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• I. Non-Christians in the Ph Ilippine Setting
• II. The Mountain Region and Its Peoples
• III. Spanish and American Penetration
• IV. Over the Administrator’s Desk
• V. Justice and Public Order
• VI. Nature’s Gifts of Land and Water
• VII. Food-Getting and Commerce
• VIII. Missions and Health Authorities Versus the Old Religion
• IX. Through the School Door
• X. The Future of the Mountain Peoples
• Bibliography
• Index