Taming Philippine Headhunters

<p>In the high mountains and jungles of the northern Philippines lived a quarter of a million people Malayan Indonesian and Pygmy. These so-called ‘non-Christians’ differing widely in life and custom were little touched by Western-style culture and government until the twentieth century. <i>Taming Philippine Headhunters </i>(1934) reveals the special system of government worked out by the American colonial authorities and Filipino leaders to approach the peoples of the mountain region the issues – political economic social religious and educational – and their assimilation with the Christian Filipinos of the lowlands. The book finishes with an analysis of their likely destiny should the Philippines achieve their independence from the US.</p>