Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life

by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521295629
• ISBN13: 9780521295628
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An accurate title

This is a classic ethnography about the Ilongots, wonderfully written and insightful. Michelle and Renato Rosaldo both learned the Ilongot language rather than relying on interpreters, and really got to know the people they studied. I think the Rosaldos were very brave to live among people whose ritual for manhood had included headhunting, and they were very openminded to be able to portray the Ilongots sympathetically as well. It is a tragedy that Michelle Rosaldo is no longer alive.