00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862428503 Buklod 20210629165239.0 m | | ta 210629s2000 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00041119704 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3707 Enkiwe, Leah B. author. Ifugao ethnomedicine in history Leah B. Enkiwe. 2000. pages [67]-99 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-99). Ethnomedicine is a subfield in Medical Anthropology, concerned with beliefs and practices relating to illness which are embedded in a matrix of culture-ideational as well as ecological patterns. Ifugao ethnomedicine is subsumed in the people's culture system, particularly in indigenous religion and patterns of ecological conservation. Supernatural beings, such as deities, ancestors and spirits cause illnesses when they are disappointed with collective as well as individual behaviors and activities. The people are expected to maintain a favorable social relation with them and enhance their ecological habitat (people consider this as the abode of the supernatural beings) in order to maintain a healthy condition. Through time, people developed health institutions to respond to changes of their social and ecological conditions. They ask supernatural beings to guard them from their enemies in the nearby villages. People resettle in another area during outbreaks of epidemics. The indigenous practice of tungaw (village prohibition to work and going out from the village) has been used as a mechanism to block the entry and/or spread of epidemics in the village. Several other mechanisms are employed by the people to maintain a healthy condition?defined by a commendable relationship with the supernatural beings. Beliefs and practices such as pfunih (rituals of particular illnesses such as ameleng (skin illnesses), pfujuy, apfu-ab (recitals), the concept of paniyaw (taboo) and the use of holo? an meakhah (herbs) are employed by people to restore the social order and/or conserve their ecology and, finally, restore their health condition. Some people are gifted with special powers to communicate with the supernatural beings to intercede on behalf of the requests and desires of people, especially when illness is experienced by the family and/or by the villagers. Through time, Ifugao experienced societal changes that affected their ethnomedical system. The introduction of foreign religion, Western education, commercialization, western medicine and modern technologies are among the factors that brought changes to Ifugao society. This paper will present the dynamics of Ifugao culture-historical experiences with their social as well as ecological habitat that led to the decline of some of their ethnomedical practices and the development of the syncretic and ethnomedical system. Traditional medicine Philippines Mayoyao (Ifugao) Congresses. The Journal of History, History and the New Millennium: Northern Luzon in Perspective Vol. XLVI, Numbers 1-4 (January-December 2000), p. [67]-99. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 29 June 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3707 Analytics