Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon

In common usage and in psychology sumpong is considered a deviant and irrational behavior. Thisarticle makes sense of sumpong by putting it in the historical context of animism, specifically that of the eighteenth-century Aeta and Ilongot of eastern Central Luzon. As a form of perception, feeling, a...

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Main Author: Dizon, Mark; Ateneo
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-40632024-08-07T03:42:03Z Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon Dizon, Mark; Ateneo In common usage and in psychology sumpong is considered a deviant and irrational behavior. Thisarticle makes sense of sumpong by putting it in the historical context of animism, specifically that of the eighteenth-century Aeta and Ilongot of eastern Central Luzon. As a form of perception, feeling, and action, sumpong was temporally flat since past, present, and future did not succeed one another in linear fashion. Based on historical dictionaries and usage, thisarticle explores the role of sumpong as an affective and culturally intelligible way of understanding and acting in the animist world as seen in cases of murder and religious change.KEYWORDS: ANIMISM • EMOTIONS • HEADHUNTING • CHRISTIANITY • CONVERSION 2015-02-26T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss1/2 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4063/viewcontent/6194.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description In common usage and in psychology sumpong is considered a deviant and irrational behavior. Thisarticle makes sense of sumpong by putting it in the historical context of animism, specifically that of the eighteenth-century Aeta and Ilongot of eastern Central Luzon. As a form of perception, feeling, and action, sumpong was temporally flat since past, present, and future did not succeed one another in linear fashion. Based on historical dictionaries and usage, thisarticle explores the role of sumpong as an affective and culturally intelligible way of understanding and acting in the animist world as seen in cases of murder and religious change.KEYWORDS: ANIMISM • EMOTIONS • HEADHUNTING • CHRISTIANITY • CONVERSION
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author Dizon, Mark; Ateneo
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Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon
author_facet Dizon, Mark; Ateneo
author_sort Dizon, Mark; Ateneo
title Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon
title_short Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon
title_full Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon
title_fullStr Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon
title_full_unstemmed Sumpong Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon
title_sort sumpong spirit beliefs, murder, and religious change among eighteenth-century aeta and ilongot in eastern central luzon
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2015
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss1/2
https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4063/viewcontent/6194.pdf
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