Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Las Dychas Yslas: The Aforementioned Islands ch. 2 Blessed are the Peacemakers: Recoletos and the Other Mission to Mindanao ch. 3 Blood Brothers and the Enemies of God: Stories of the Kagayanon Conversion ch. 4 Treachery Most Foul: Maria Campan and the Caraga Revolt of 1631 ch. 5 Your Slaves Who Shall Serve You: The Hinterland Tribes of Mindanao Seek Patronage ch. 6 The Golden Cane and Other Colonial Symbols of Indigenous Authority Afterword: Respecting Place Appendices Appendix A Abbreviations Appendix B A Note on Translation and Orthography Appendix C On the Citation of Archival Sources Appendix D Mindanao Missions of the Recoletos, First and Second Mission Periods Appendix E Transcript from the Archivo Provincial de Los Agustinos Recoletos Regarding the Founding of the Mission of Tagoloan. ch. 2 Blessed are the Peacemakers: Recoletos and the Other Mission to Mindanaol Serve You: The Hinterland Tribes of Mindanao Seek Patronage ch. 6 The Golden Cane and Other Colonial Symbols of Indigenous Authority Afterword: Respecting Place Appendices Appendix A Abbreviations Appendix B A Note on Translation and Orthography Appendix C On the Citation of Archival Sources Appendix D Mindanao Missions of the Recoletos, First and Second Mission Periods Appendix E Transcript from the Archivo Provincial de Los Agustinos Recoletos Regarding the Founding of the Mission of Tagoloan. ch. 3 Blood Brothers and the Enemies of God: Stories of the Kagayanon Conversion ch. 4 Treachery Most Foul: Maria Campan and the Caraga Revolt of 1631 ch. 5 Your Slaves Who Shal ch. 6 The Golden Cane and Other Colonial Symbols of Indigenous Authority Afterword: Respecting Place Appendices Appendix A Abbreviations Appendix B A Note on Translation and Orthography Appendix C On the Citation of Archival Sources Appendix D Mindanao Missions of the Recoletos, First and Second Mission Periods Appendix E Transcript from the Archivo Provincial de Los Agustinos Recoletos Regarding the Founding of the Mission of Tagoloan.

"A Mountain of Difference recasts the early colonial encounter between the indigenous Lumad and Christian missionaries in the southern Philippines. This groundbreaking study of the Lumad--the non-Muslim native peoples of Mindanao--draws on Spanish archival sources and indigenous oral traditions to reconceptualize the political and cultural history of the island's "upland" minorities. While Lumad peoples are widely believed to have successfully resisted the traumatic transformations of Spanish colonization, Oona Paredes makes a case for the deep cultural impact of Catholic missions in Mindanao, arguing that key elements of "traditional" Lumad life today may have evolved from earlier cross-cultural encounters with Iberian Catholic missionaries. Vignettes of Lumad life prior to the nineteenth century show different communities actively engaging colonial power and mediating its exercise according to local priorities, with unexpected results. This book complicates our understanding of Mindanao's history and ethnography, and outlines the beginning of an autonomous history for the marginalized Lumad peoples. The interactions explored in this book illuminate the surprisingly complex cultural and power dynamics at the peripheries of European colonialism"

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