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NON-MATERIAL CULTURE

INTANGIBLE CULTURE

NON-MATERIAL CULTURE

includes the behaviors, ideas, norms, values, and beliefs that contribute to a society's overall culture

MATERIAL CULTURE

TANGIBLE CULTURE

MATERIAL CULTURE

refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture

Natural Heritage

distinctive cultural symbols--represent a group's persistence toward collectivity & authenticity

Provinces of Cordillera

1. Abra

2. Apayao

3. Benguet(3.A Baguio City)

4. ifugao

5. Kalinga

6. Mountain Province

Settlement and Territories of Cordillera

• Fluidity of movement

• No political and territorial boundary

• Scattered independent villages

Peopling and Ethnolinguistic Groups of Cordillera

• Diverse ethnolinguistic groups

• Multicultural with distinct languages

Educational Institutions of Cordillera

• Oral culture is passed through rituals

• Informal

• Customs and traditions

• Roles in the family and the community

Changes by the Spanish and American

• Reinforced political boundaries

• Administrative grid

• Classifying and categorizing natives to different ethnic groups

• Centralized government as opposed to the scattered independent villages

• Formal Education

• Customary laws facilitated by elders to local and State laws facilitated by the centralized government

WORLDVIEW of the Cordillera

• Holistic and Relational

• The relationship of living, non-living, seen, and unseen entities is holistic, shared, and relational

• circular worldview, and it shows connections between elements of existence that compose the visible physical world and the invisible spiritual world

• Prayers, rituals and religious songs accompany their everyday activities

SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS/ LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

the language a person speaks can influence their worldview, thought, and even how they experience and understand the world.

Values & Spirituality of Cordillera

• Values are guided by the World View

• The world view reflects spirituality

• Rituals and ceremonies are imbued in this World view

Inayan or Pijew

fear of Kabunyan/God or the adi kaila or unseen spirits

People of Abra

TINGGUIANS

Land of Abra

he towering mountains in the western side of Cordillera in Northern Luzon.

Worldview of Abra

Existence of numerous supernatural beings who inhabit their land and who are endowed with powers superior to those of human beings, enabling them to guard or guide the Tingguians’ lif

dawak

applied to that part of important ceremonies in which the spirits enter the bodies of the mediums. It is also given as a separate ceremony

Political Parties of Abra

LALLAKAY (COUNCIL OF ELDERS), CUSTOMARY LAW , BODONG