Igorot
The Igorot (also Cordillerano ) are an indigenous people who live on the Philippine island of Luzon .
Their ancestral territory is in the Cordillera Central in northern Luzon and includes the Cordillera administrative region with the provinces of Abra , Apayao , Benguet , Ifugao , Kalinga , Mountain Province and the city of Baguio City .
The Igorot can be divided into two groups: the larger one inhabits the southern, central and western areas and creates rice terraces. The smaller group settles in the east and north. Both groups used to be headhunters .
The UN Special Rapporteur for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, who has been in office since June 2014, comes from the Igorot ethnic group.
Subgroups
A distinction is made between the following ethnic groups:
- Apayao: (also Isneg and Dibagat-Kabugao-Isneg): settle on the Apayao River , used to grow dry rice.
- Tingguian
- Kalinga (also Linimos, Limos, Limos-Liwan Kalinga): settle on the middle course of the Chico river .
- Bontok: (also Bontoc): settle on the Chico (including in Bontoc ) and were previously known headhunters.
- Kankanai: (also Kankana-ey, Sagada / Besao Igorot, Bontoc and Aplai): settle in the western Mountain Province, in the north of Benguet and in the south-east of Ilocos Sur. Various dances are known: Tayaw, Pattong, Takik and Balangbang.
- Ifugao : (also Amganad, Ayangan, Kiangan, Gilipanes, Quiangan, Tuwali Ifugao and Mayoyao): their rice terraces became tourist magnets.
- Ibaloi (also Ibaloy and Nabaloi): live in southern Benguet , their lavish Pesshet festival and the Kabayan mummies are known .
- I-wak
- Balangao: live in the central mountain province mainly in the Balangao municipality. They use the Farangao language.
religion
The Igorot tribes are officially Christianized today, but still practice their old customs . The animistic ideas of ethnic religions are still present: As ancestors , they worship the dead with high status, nature spirits and gods, including a supreme being kabanian . Numerous rites, which differ from people to people, relate primarily to fertility and natural processes and are intended to preserve the harmony of the world. Such rites are family or community events. Animal sacrifices are practiced. Healers, fortune tellers and priests have shamanic traits, their ability is inherited. Often it is women. Illnesses are believed to be caused by ghosts , and ghosts dwell everywhere in nature, apart from human habitation. After death and the extended burial ceremonies, the soul wanders into the realm of the dead to the ancestors and lives there in a similar way as in this world.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manila Standard: An Igorot at the United Nations ( Memento of April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), January 2, 2014
- ↑ Mihály Hoppál : The Book of Shamans. Europe and Asia. Econ Ullstein List, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-550-07557-X . P. 424 f.
