2025/12/25 by Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio, Myfel D. Paluga · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Philippine History and Culture #Historical Studies of British Isles #Asian American and Pacific Histories
paper · pdf · doi:10.20495/seas.25006
openalex publication_date 2025/12/25 · openalex created_date 2026/03/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07
This study reconstructs life in the southern Mindanao highlands from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century from historical accounts and contemporary ethnographic observations. It explores the evolving relationships among highland groups, referred to as “atas,” “ata-as,” or “ataas,” and other communities in the region. Such terms, later recognized officially as “Ata,” were used by non-highlanders to denote highland communities based on their geographical location, while they self-identified according to upland river configurations.