Jama Mapun: A Changing Samal Society in the Southern Philippines.

by Eric Casino

The Jama Mapun is an original ethnographic portrait of an important Samalan people found in Cagayan de Sulu, southern Palawan, and North Borneo. It explores the major dimensions of this maritime society--its economic system and environmental adaptation, its political system and authority structures, its religious traditions and value orientation. Describing and documenting the major economic and sociocultural changes that the Jama Mapun have been undergoing in the past 70 years, the book not only adds to the body of general anthropological knowledge but also offers to theorists and planners thoughtful stimulation for evolving humanly satisfying political and cultural structures in the Third World.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Luke Schroeder · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an important work about one of the Sama people groups in the Sulu Archipelago, the southern islands of the Philippines. Eric Casiño did firsthand research on the island of Cagayan de Sulu (now Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi. His anthropological methods are sound and the information that he recorded down from the 1970s is helpful with my research now in the 2020s.