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講題：On the fringes of an empire: resisting conquest and pericolonial archaeology in Ifugao, Philippines
講者：Dr.Stephen Acabado,Department of Anthropology, UCLA
時間：105年9月21日(三)14:30-16:30
地點：人類學系館臺大水源校區302室(三樓教室)
摘要：
The expansion of the Spanish empire in the late 16th century spelled doom to most indigenous polities in the Philippines. The colonial government, however, never established a permanent presence in the Cordillera highlands during their 333 years of reign. The Ifugao, in particular, was able to repel multiple attempts by the Spanish at conquest.? The culture contact between the colonizing power and local Ifugao communities resulted in the rapid economic and political transformations in the region; changes that were likely due to the Spanish presence in the adjacent lowlands. Using the concept of pericolonialism, this presentation focuses on the responses of indigenous peoples in the highland Philippines who appear to have resisted/endured Spanish cooptation. These populations are considered to be on the periphery of Spanish conquest, but were heavily affected by conquest. The archaeological record suggests rapid political and economic shifts occurred in the region that coincided with the arrival of the Spanish in the adjacent lowlands. Foremost of this shift is the adoption of wet-rice in the highlands and the subsequent expansion of the Old Kiyyangan Village. Previously, the dating of the inception of the Ifugao rice terraces was placed at 2,000-3,000 years ago. The findings of the Ifugao Archaeological Project however, show that landscape modification for terraced wet-rice cultivation started at around AD 1600 and intensified soon after, suggesting increased demand for food. Excavations at the Old Kiyyangan Village (Kiangan, Ifugao) also imply that the settlement had continuous contact/interaction with lowland groups and other highland groups between ca. AD 1600 and late AD 1800, refuting the idea of isolation.
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