Landscape Modification and Social Change as Resistence among the Ifugao on the Borderlands of Spanish Philippines

Summary

Dominant historical narratives suggest that groups located on the periphery of colonial empires and states received minimal influence from the latter. However, recent studies that focused on borderlands indicate substantial culture change and ecological manipulation that contributed to successful resistance against conquest. The Ifugao Archaeological Project (IAP) investigated the colonial borderland of Spanish Philippines, focusing on the role of the adoption of wet-rice cultivation and landscape manipulation as a means to resist conquest in Ifugao, northern Philippines. Our paper presents the findings from the IAP as they illustrate how the Ifugao intensely remodeled their environment and social structure for both subsistence and deliberate resistance against the Spanish.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• The Interaction between Political and Ecological Frontiers

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Abstract Id(s): 17548