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Philippines - The Tasaday Controversy: Assessing the Evidence. Edited by Thomas N. Headland. Washington, D.C.: The American Anthropological Association, 1992. Pp. xiii, 255. Illustrations, Figures, Maps, Tables, Notes, Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Anthony R. Walker
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1995

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References

1 Vol. 141, No. 6, pp. 880–82b.

2 MacLeish, Kenneth and Launois, John (photographer), “The Tasadays: Stone Age Cavemen of Mindanao”, National Geographic 142,2 (1992): 219–49Google Scholar.

3 The Last Tribes of Mindanao, directed and produced by Dennis Azarella.

4 (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975; new edition, Boston, MA: David R. Godine).

5 E.g. (a) Manuel Elizalde, with Robert B. Fox, The Tasaday Forest People: A Data Paper on a Newly Discovered Food Gathering and Stone Tool Using Manubo Group in the Mountains of South Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 171), typescript viii, 20 pp.; (b) Fernandez, Carlos A. and Lynch, Frank, The Tasaday: Cave-dwelling Food Gatherers of South Cotabato, Mindanao. Philippine Sociological Review 20,3 (1972): 279–313, 328–30Google Scholar; (c) Yen, Douglas E. and Nance, John (eds.), Further Studies on the Tasaday (Makati, Razal: Panamin Foundation, 1976)Google Scholar.

6 Nance, John in a 1975 article entitled “Stone-age Tasaday Hurtles into Today” (The Straits Echo, Penang, 22 05 1975, p. 8)Google Scholar had written that “Anthropologist Robert Fox, the first social scientist to meet the Tasaday, said they provided a rare opportunity to see man in early stages of cultural development”.

7 E.g. Lebar, Frank M. et al. , Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia: Volume 2 — Philippines and Formosa (New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1975), p. 40Google Scholar.

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