Tiruray Subsistence: From Shifting Cultivation to Plow Agriculture

By Stuart A. Schlegel

This book offers a recent case study of the transformation from a traditional economic system, under pressure to change, into a peasant system which is totally different, by the Teduray (Tiruray) people of the southern Philippines. The traditional activities of shifting cultivation, hunting, fishing, and dealings with the coastal market outside the rainforest are described in detail, along with the social order that sustains it. When the forest was being logged out, the people were driven out of the forest where they became a variant of general lowland Filipino peasant life. Every aspect of their subsistence activities were then different, and their old and highly satisfying social relations and economic practices were lost. There is sufficient statistical data on both regimes to allow comparison of their effectiveness in nutrition and family wellbeing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523269162
• ISBN13: 9781523269167
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"