Empire’s Informal Ties: Pioneer Anthropologists in Davao, 1904–1916

• Main Author: Dacudao, Patricia Irene
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Anthropology; Imperialism; World Fairs; Field Museum; Davao History; History; Indigenous Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/89; http://www.philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/article/view/5030
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The five Americans who studied the indigenous Bagobo people in Davao from 1904 to 1916 did not adhere to the evolutionary anthropology championed by colonial administrator Dean Worcester. Their fieldwork, being either mostly self-supported or through the privately funded Field Museum of Natural Hist...