POLITICS, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: THE CASE OF CAGAYAN DE SULU

POLITICS, RELIGION, AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION: THE CASE OF CAGAYAN DE SULU

The social-stratification system of Sulu, marked by three status groups (nobles, commoners, and slaves), underpinned traditional economic, political, and religious behavior. Starting from about 1900, the Americans changed the system when they pensioned the sultan off, curtailed the nobility's p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philippine sociological review 1973-07, Vol.21 (3/4), p.261-271
1. Verfasser: Casino, Eric S
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Barrios
Islam
Mayors
Muslims
Nobility
Peasant class
Prestige
Slaves
Social stratification
Society, The, of
Villages
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Zusammenfassung:The social-stratification system of Sulu, marked by three status groups (nobles, commoners, and slaves), underpinned traditional economic, political, and religious behavior. Starting from about 1900, the Americans changed the system when they pensioned the sultan off, curtailed the nobility's power, and abolished slavery. Power, wealth, and prestige, which in the past were allocated largely through ascription, are now achievable by all. Proof is in two emergent high-status groups, teachers and successful traderhadjis.
ISSN:0031-7810