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By James Francis Warren
Published by New Day Publishers, ©2001.
Iranun and Balangingi explores ethnic, cultural and material changes in the transformative history of oceans and seas, commodities and populations, mariners and ships, and raiders and refugees, in Southeast Asia, with particular reference to Sulu Mindanao region, or the “Sulu Zone.” This book the companion volume to The Sulu Zone, fashions an ethnohistorical framework for understanding the complex interconnected and interdependent patterns of world commerce and economic development, maritime raiding, slavery, and the formation and maintenance of ethnic identity.
The Iranun, “lanoon,” “Lanun,” “Maguindanao,” or “Moro” were a sudden terrifying phenomenon in the history of Southeast Asia from 1768 to 1878. Iranun raiders in their longboats burst through the defenses of late eighteenth and nineteenth century Southeast Asia striking terror into the hearts of Spanish friars in the Philippines, Malay fishers in the Straits of Malacca and coastal rulers in the Spice Islands, for more than a century.
These sea raiders-the lords of the eastern seas-were the “shapers,” a set of ethnic groups that specialized in long distance maritime raiding and did it on a regional scale. While regional populations across Southeast Asia in the process were fragmented, scattered and relocated. This book looks at the unprecedented, forced migrations, of the mass of captives and slaves caught in the cogs of the Sulu economy, which shaped the demographic origins of the Iranun and Balangingi and the overall population trends and settlement patterns of large parts of the Philippines and eastern Indonesia until the end of the nineteenth century.
This ethnohistory also offers a range of insights about the process of ethnic self-definition and the meaning and constitution of “culture” in the modern world system. Iranun and Balangingi seeks to explore these themes through an interdisciplinary approach based on archival sources, literature, period testimony, interviews, and fieldwork, from sites situated in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Description: 585 pages ; 22.8 x 15.1 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-971-10-1056-9
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