Breaking barriers of ethnocentrism re-examining Igorot representation through material culture and visual research methods

The material culture found on the body is physical evidence of human experience, an indication of the physical body's designation as the site for constructing identities through the use of distinct markers of difference and similarity. It provides a reified object for analysis that captures the...

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Published in:	Cordillera Review : Journal of Philippine Culture and Society Vol. I, no. 1 (Mar. 2009), 47-80
Main Author:	Amores, Analyn Salvador
Resource Type:	Article
Published:	2009
Subjects:	Igorot (Philippine people) > Social life and customs Tribal tattoos Burik (Tattooing) > Kabayan (Benguet) Tattooing > Buscalan (Tinglayan, Kalinga) Representations of groups Cultural identity