Kankanay Ceremonies / (American Archaeology and Ethnology)

The monograph documents the social organization, material life, and ceremonial repertoire of a highland Filipino group, mapping territorial range and dialect variation, comparing customs with neighboring peoples, and describing personal appearance, agriculture, and economic practices. It outlines inheritance, marriage, and dispute procedures, details priesthood, divination, spoken ritual, dance, song, omens, and taboos, and provides systematic descriptions of numerous named rites and their purposes. The volume concludes with mythic narratives explaining thunder, a mountain deity, and human origins, interweaving ritual texts, performers' roles, and local variations across towns.