Agta-tabangnon of Camarines Sur / Jose Fernando P. Obias.
Material type: TextIntramuros, Manila : National Commission for Culture and Arts, 2009Description: 64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789718141762
- DS 688.A3 .Ob31 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Isagani R. Cruz Collection | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | DS 688.A3 .Ob31 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3IRC2014000468 |
This book entitled "Agta-tabangnon of Camarines Sur", is a project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) to provide the reader's knowledge about the indigenous people and community in Bicol Region mainly in Camarines Sur which known to be Agta or Negritos. This book tackles the land area of the agta in camarines sur. The agta's were a type of indigenous community which the mens were the one responsible in finding for food of the community but unlike other indigenous community the agta men's were walking and traveling from mountain to mountain for a month and sometimes a year for the search of food. Agta's have strong beliefs and practices like in courtship and marriage, building a house, pregnancy, child-rearing, death, planting and checking the direction of the weather. In their everyday economic activities they do fishing, farming, hunting, use of poison, bird trapping and wildlife, honey hunting, weaving and pottery. Agta's believe in concept of god, cosmogony and spirit beings.
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