RETHINKING HISTORY, CONSERVING HERITAGE ARCHAEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN IFUGAO, PHILIPPINES

Abstract

he rugged landscapes of the Philippine Cordilleras havelong been a focus of anthropologists due to the variabilityof ethnolinguistic groups in the region and the fierceresistance of highland populations to colonizing forces from thelowlands. Of the seven major ethnolinguistic groups, the Ifugaois the most studied, primarily because of their extensive rice ter-races (Figure 1). Since 2012, the Ifugao Archaeological Project(IAP)