Book Review
Polytechnic University of the Philippines
College of Arts and Letters
Department of History
Sta. Mesa, Manila
A Book Review
Of the book
Tinguians: Death of a Culture
Presented to
Prof. Maria Rhodora Agustin
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject of
Philippine Pre-History
Presented by
Rica Mae G. Dominguez
Bachelor of Arts in History 2-1
March 4, 2013
Tinguians: Death of a Culture
By: Nid Anima
I. Introduction
II. About the Author
III. Summary
IV. Strengths and Weaknesses of the Book
V. Importance of the Book
VI. Analysis and Suggestions
I. INTRODUCTION
The book “Tinguian: Death of a Culture” written by Nid Anima discusses the historically-elusive culture of the Tinguians that continues to elude today’s historians and anthropologists. This is a book review that attempts to summarize its contents and analyse the influence that the Tinguian tribe has done to Filipino history before the Spaniards, its co-existence with other people of its time and, most importantly, its culture.
Even now, the Philippines remains an archipelago alive with natural bounties and plentiful livestock. All over the country, tall mountains stand sentinel and home to green forests and hide promises of the coast and the sea.
The Tinguians are an ethnic tribe predating most other ethnic tribes in the Philippines. What proof anthropologists have of the tribe is little and often incidental in nature. From passing mentions and stories to actually having found pottery fragments and other concrete evidences, the Tinguians are indeed still a mysterious ethnic group.
From what we know of them, the Tinguians are a tribe speculated to still persist in the northern part of Luzon, in the mountain provinces. They have come from several places all over Asia, and thus have brought several culturally-different influences and ideas that became the foundations of other tribes’ cultures.
The tribe, along
College of Arts and Letters
Department of History
Sta. Mesa, Manila
A Book Review
Of the book
Tinguians: Death of a Culture
Presented to
Prof. Maria Rhodora Agustin
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject of
Philippine Pre-History
Presented by
Rica Mae G. Dominguez
Bachelor of Arts in History 2-1
March 4, 2013
Tinguians: Death of a Culture
By: Nid Anima
I. Introduction
II. About the Author
III. Summary
IV. Strengths and Weaknesses of the Book
V. Importance of the Book
VI. Analysis and Suggestions
I. INTRODUCTION
The book “Tinguian: Death of a Culture” written by Nid Anima discusses the historically-elusive culture of the Tinguians that continues to elude today’s historians and anthropologists. This is a book review that attempts to summarize its contents and analyse the influence that the Tinguian tribe has done to Filipino history before the Spaniards, its co-existence with other people of its time and, most importantly, its culture.
Even now, the Philippines remains an archipelago alive with natural bounties and plentiful livestock. All over the country, tall mountains stand sentinel and home to green forests and hide promises of the coast and the sea.
The Tinguians are an ethnic tribe predating most other ethnic tribes in the Philippines. What proof anthropologists have of the tribe is little and often incidental in nature. From passing mentions and stories to actually having found pottery fragments and other concrete evidences, the Tinguians are indeed still a mysterious ethnic group.
From what we know of them, the Tinguians are a tribe speculated to still persist in the northern part of Luzon, in the mountain provinces. They have come from several places all over Asia, and thus have brought several culturally-different influences and ideas that became the foundations of other tribes’ cultures.
The tribe, along