Skills, knowledge and symbols of the Manobo boat-builders: An ethnoscience approach

• Main Author: De Guzman, Ma. Teresa G.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Manobos (Philippine people)—Science; Boatbuilding—Philippines—Butuan City—History; Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6197
• Institution: De La Salle University

This research study would like to find out through ethnoarchaeology and ethnoscience approach whether the Manobo indigenous group is someway connected with the construction of the Butuan boats or balangays found in Butuan City in 1970s. Some people believe that the Manobos are the earliest settlers...