Who Were the Balangingi Samal? Slave Raiding and Ethnogenesis in Nineteenth-Century Sulu

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ID3639827
AuthorsJim Warren (0000-0003-0055-6730, corresponding author)
Year1978
Volume37
Issue3
Pages477-490
Publication date1978-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2053573
OpenAlexW1969757127, W2596585224
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited8

The problem of ethnic identification is an important but neglected theme in Southeast Asian history. Historians of the region are indebted to Leach, Lehman, and Moerman for their pioneering work on the nature and history of upland societies in Southeast Asia. In Political Systems of Highland Burma, Leach demonstrates that culture and ethnic identity are not necessarily synonymous. He points out that the process of identification among tribal people like the Kachin is never simple; it entails migration, intermarriage, barter trade relations, warfare, interpenetrating political systems, and values and beliefs shared with non-Kachin. Manifest in the work of all these anthropologists is a conscious effort to define the nature of social categories applied to ethnic groups in Southeast Asia across time. Their work has led to a more complete understanding of the nature of ethnic groups and the processes responsible for "accomplishing ethnicity" among upland peoples in Southeast Asia

Barter · Ethnic group · Ethnic history · Ethnogenesis · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Southeast asia · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law

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