Children of Tulus: Essays on the Tiruray people.

Quezon City, Philippines Giraffe Books , 1994. Paperback First Edition (1994), unstated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition (1994), unstated. Very Good+ in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: just a hint of wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to wrapper covers, which also show several very faint stress creases; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tighly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive flaws. Bright and clean. Remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9 x 6 x 0.5 inches). vi, 241 pages. Language: English. Frontispiece duotone photograph of young people of Figel settlement playing gongs at dawn. Weight: 12 ounces. Paperback: Pictorial Wraps. This is a collection of essays written by Professor Schlegel over the years of his research among the Teduray people of the southern Philippines, who were previously known as the "Tiruray." It includes a short introductory description of their society and culture, and essays on such topics as their relationship to the neighboring Maguinanaon people, their traditional use of the night sky as a calendar, the transition of many Teduray from traditional rainforest life to a very different peasant Filipino life, and a comparative description and nutritional analysis of the diets of both groups. Finally, it presents Schlegel's translation from the original Teduray of a short 19th century book, written by a Teduray and dictated to a Spanish Jesuit missionary, on the customs of his people.  INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.