Word Music. Ilanän Raiding and Oral Memory in Pala’wan Highland Culture
Résumé
In Central Philippines, Hanunóo, Buhid, Pala’wan and Sama Dilaut are four distinct equalitarian animist societies with shamanism and - like Harold C. Conklin - I conceive them as three subcultures with shared features common to the Sulu Basin Culture. Contrastingly, there are stratified societies in Mindanao and Sulu such as the Maranao of Lanao, the Sultanate of Cotabato and the Magindanaon, the Sulu Sultanate and the Tausug, characterized by a hierarchical social organization, Islam, and a dominant attitude towards other ethnic groups such as the Sama / the Sama Dilaut and Pala’wan.
This chapter provides the historian with brief excerpts of three tultul that allude to historical events (from 1768 to 1898) related to raiding and enslavement of Pala’wan people by the Ilanän (Iranun), and their annual violent attacks and sacks (from end of August to October). The desolation, fear, despair and displacement they provoked, resonate in epics until the present day, revealing the reliability of artistic compositions and oral memory
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