A Mountain of Difference. The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao, Oona Parades

Few publications of the Cornell Southeast Asia Program Series have been concerned with the Philippines, the focus of the series have been rather on Malay-Indonesian studies and mainland Southeast Asia. This thin volume by Oona Paredes is a welcome addition to the ethnohistorical literature of the Philippines’, especially Mindanao region. The archival research on which the book is based was carried in the frame of a doctoral programme and it was supported by a grant from the Werner-Gren Founda...