Understanding Indigenous Values Embedded in Oral Traditions

This chapter analyses a collective worldview through the values embodied in the oral traditions of the T'boli, an indigenous tribe in Lake Sebu, the Philippines. Utilizing the ethnographic method, data collection is made primarily through informants' in-depth interview and literary criticism of the oral traditions. The study records, transcribes, translates, codes, and classifies the T'boli's oral traditions according to their genre. Framed under Carl Jung's Archetypal Criticism perspective, it identifies T'boli's religious, human, and cultural values in the mythical characters and in the recurring motifs and themes of their oral traditions. The prominent motifs in T'boli's oral traditions are the controlling imageries of a deity and a body of water. The recurring didactic teachings in the themes are devotion, altruism, and deference. The embodied values are faithfulness, generosity and respect and obedience to authority. These values shape the T'boli's worldview in terms of their cultural and religious practices and traditions

Biology · Geography · Indigenous · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Ecology

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