TY  - GEN
T1  - Mountains of water [videorecording] the terraces and traditions of the Ifugao
A2  - Corre, Fruto
LA  - English
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931313907299
AB  - The Ifugao people came from Cordillera mountains of Northern Philippines.  Through thousands of years, they designed, built and maintained the Ifugao rice terraces.  These are one of the living wonders of the world, a World Heritage Site.  Like giant shimmering steps stretching out as far as eyes can see, these ponfields of the Ifugao have been called the greatest agricultural achievement in human history.  This skin water and stone blankets the steep mountains slopes of the Cordillera to hights five thousand feet.  If palce end to end, it is estimated that this would reach halfway around the world.  In terms of engineering  and sheer scale, there are no other terraced rice cultivation areas in the world that can compare with the Ifugao Terraces.
AB  - Who are the Ifugao?  Who are these poeple who believe in a pantheon of gods and spirits that they hold sway over their mountain world?  Just how did they are carve out these ponfields and develop the technology neede to cultivate rice, sustainability and organically, in such a hostile environment, and maintain all of it for thousands of years?
AB  - Discover a people who, centuries ago, showed highly-advanced engineering skills and intimate knowledge of their environment.  A people whose skills in resource management, intercropping and sustainable agriculture draw dramatization, even today, from experts all over the world.
AB  - This documentary features two of the three remaining mumbaki or Shamman, and glimpses of their rituals, from Ifugao barrio of Amganad.  Listen to the women chant the hudhud as they harvest the rice.  Watch weavers, woodcarvers and otehr traditional artists who remain faithful to the old ways.  Learn about the Ifugao, a people being changed by time.
CN  - VHS 146
KW  - Ifugao : People.
KW  - Ifugao : Rituals.
KW  - Mumbaki.
KW  - Shamans.
ER  -