Peasants in the hills : a study of the dynamics of social change among the Buhid swidden cultivators in the Philippines / Violeta Lopez-Gonzaga.

Includes index.

it is also one of the few post-martial law studies by anthropologists dealing direcly with the subject of forced or directed change by the Government.... Her data on the articulation/incorporation of the Buhid with new political and socioeconomic structures (mainly brought about by the Marcos regime) are refreshing and undoubtedly useful to planners, development specialists, social scientists, among others. The tremedous data she collected, presented, and analyzed (historical, economic, social, political, etc.) in support of her theoretical stance have applied value for all those concerned with 'modernizing' the Philippines, especially the minority groups, including the swidden agriculturists of Mindoro..." GAVIN ALDERSON SMITH, another professor of anthropology and co-author of Challenging Anthropology, adds. "There is no doubt in my mind that waht is contained in these pages is a most sensitive and detailed piece ethnography."

MARIO D. ZAMORA, Professor of anthropology at the College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A., "Ms. Gonzaga's work is not only the first major research on the Buhid of Mindoro