Philippine Pagans. The Autographies of Three Ifugaos

Description

xxi, 271 p., full coloured cloth, gilt lettered spine, 24 plates, index, introduction, and 2 sketch maps.

First edition of this classic book by Barton [1883-1947]. Nancy Lurie: “.R. F. Barton was among [the Ifugao] long enough so that his knowledge of them was just about ideal for his purpose. He was able to select three representative and yet remarkable individuals to tell their life stories. Two were men, one a woman. These stories gave him his final understanding of the institution of ‘agamang’, dormitories where young men may visit girls who are not taboo to them and engage in sexual intercourse without any sense of personal shame or social disapproval.”