Name: JVU Date: June 2, 2021

Course/ Block: BSSW-2R

Cultural Mapping
Cultural differences (Blaan, Manobo and Tasaday) Cultural similarities

They have different languages or dialect; They are all

 Koronadal Blaan (Tagalagad) Sarangani Blaan (Tumanao) indigenous group of
 Cotabato Manobo (Dulangan Manobo) is a Manobo language people in the
spoken in Mindanao and distributed over a vast region Philippines.
including Cotabato, Bukidnon, Davao, Agusan, Surigao, and They are non-
Camiguin Islands Muslim indigenous
 Tasaday do not speak a separate language or an groups which
unintelligible dialect. They speak a dialect of the nearby Cotabato collectively known
Manobo language. as the Lumad, a
They are all live in the different set of area; Manobo usually build their Cebuano term
villages near small bodies of water or forest clearings, although they means ‘native’ or
also opt for hillsides, rivers, valleys, and plateaus. The communities are ‘indigenous’.
small, consisting of only 4-12 houses. On the other hand, however, the Moreover, they are
non-hoax element is that there was a small community of people some of the 13
called Tasaday that really exists and who were living as a separate--but ethnic groups
not isolated--group of hunters and food gatherers in the rain forest of comprises non-
the southern Philippines. While the Blaans are found originally in that Muslim Lumad
vast plain that stretches from the shore of the Buluan Lake moving tribes.
Southward to the Bay of Saranggani. They are found between the These indigenous
T’boli in the western side particularly the so-called Roxas mountain tribes where mostly
range. found in the
They also have different belief, practices and clothing. southern part of the
 Tasaday as a cave-dwelling food-gatherers whose subsistence country.
was based on the wild yam; other foods included tadpoles, Manobo and Blaan
frogs, small fish, crabs, grubs, palm fruit, and wild bananas. The have similarities
Tasaday were dressed only in loincloths and skirts made of when it comes to
orchid leaves, used only crude stone tools (axes and scrapers) agriculture or
and wooden implements (fire drills and digging sticks), and had farming unlike with
no weapons for hunting or war. Tasaday they were
 The Blaan are a mountain folk, rarely going down to the indeed unfamiliar
shoreline. They practice swidden agriculture (slash-and-burn), with agriculture.
augmented by river fishing and hunting. Crops are rice, corn, They are all had
sugarcane, banana, papaya, and root crops. Also believe that similarities in
they are creatures of Melu that, originally there were only two marriage, arrange
beings in the universe: Melu (creator) and Tau Dalona Tana marriage may apply
 Manobo practice ancestor-worship and are polytheistic; have in some instances.
an ancient and rich ethnic cultural background: chanting,
playing musical instrument (drum, gong, nose-flute, stampers,
Jews harp, budlong).