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Gibson, Thomas Paul was born on June 7, 1956 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Count Dillon Junior and Katherine (Vislocky) Gibson.
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Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society Among the Buhid of Mindoro
( The Buid are a group of shifting cultivators inhabiting...)
The Buid are a group of shifting cultivators inhabiting the highlands of Mindoro. They continue to resist incorporation into the economic, political and ideological systems of the lowland Philippines. This study focuses on the relationship between their value system and their history of resistance to the lowland world. Some of the most striking features of this value system are a thorough-going equality between women and men, old and young; a devaluation of dyadic ties of kinship and reciprocity; a high rate of divorce and remarriage which is positively valued; and, on the religious plane, the legitimation of belief through the direct personal experience of the spirit world in communal seances and sacrifices. This study is based on field research among the Buid of Ayufay, a community which formed the first large, permanent settlement in its history to counter the threat to their land, property and persons posed by settlers from the lowlands. The work will be of interest to students of ethnicity, highland/lowland relations, and indigenous resistance to the world system, as well as to anthropologists interested in kinship and religion in Southeast Asia.
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Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society among the Buid of Mindoro (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)
( The Buid are a group of shifting cultivators inhabiting...)
The Buid are a group of shifting cultivators inhabiting the highlands of Mindoro. They continue to resist incorporation into the economic, political and ideological systems of the lowland Philippines. This study focuses on the relationship between their value system and their history of resistance to the lowland world. Some of the most striking features of this value system are a thorough-going equality between women and men, old and young; a devaluation of dyadic ties of kinship and reciprocity; a high rate of divorce and remarriage which is positively valued; and, on the religious plane, the legitimation of belief through the direct personal experience of the spirit world in communal séances and sacrifices. This study is based on field research among the Buid of Ayufay, a community which formed the first large, permanent settlement in its history to counter the threat to their land, property and persons posed by settlers from the lowlands. The work will be of interest to students of ethnicity, highland/lowland relations, and indigenous resistance to the world system, as well as to anthropologists interested in kinship and religion in Southeast Asia.
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Thomas Paul Gibson
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Thomas Paul Gibson, American anthropology educator. Recipient Research grant Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 1985-1986, 86-88, 88-90, Sir Raymond Firth award London School of Economics, England, 1983, Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund, Royal Anthropological Institute, England, 1983, Studentship, International Center for Economics, England, 1982.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics, 1983.
Career
Lecturer, U. Manchester, England, 1984-1985; visiting lecturer, Cambridge U., England, 1985; assistant professor, U. Rochester, New York, 1985-1991; associate professor, U. Rochester, New York, since 1991; chair department anthropology, U. Rochester, New York, since 1995.
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Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society Among the Buhid of Mindoro
( The Buid are a group of shifting cultivators inhabiting...)
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Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society among the Buid of Mindoro (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology)
( The Buid are a group of shifting cultivators inhabiting...)
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Sacrifice and Sharing in the Philippine Highlands: Religion and Society Among the Buhid of Mindoro
Membership
Fellow Royal Anthropological Institute. Member Association Social Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
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Married Ruhi Maker, October 18, 1981. 1 child, Taimur Tahir.
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American
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Recipient Research grant Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 1985-1986, 86-88, 88-90, Sir Raymond Firth award London School of Economics, England, 1983, Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund, Royal Anthropological Institute, England, 1983, Studentship, International Center for Economics, England, 1982.Recipient Research grant Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 1985-1986, 86-88, 88-90, Sir Raymond Firth award London School of Economics, England, 1983, Radcliffe-Brown Memorial Fund, Royal Anthropological Institute, England, 1983, Studentship, International Center for Economics, England, 1982.