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51 Phil. L.J. 27 (1976)
Manuvu' Batasan Related to Things and Property

handle is hein.journals/philplj51 and id is 31 raw text is: MANUVU' BATASAN RELATED TO THINGS AND PROPERTY E. ARSENIO MANUEL * I. INTRODUCTION' The Manuvu' people have for their homeland a wide stretch of con- tiguous territory located in southeastern Bukidnon province, northeastern Cotabato del Norte and western Davao City in Central Mindanao. Their aboriginal lands before World War II were located west of the Davao River and east of the Pulangi River which is the northern branch of the Cotabato River. They number about 30,000 people. They are mainly swidden (kaingin) agriculturists,. not having any knowledge of irrigation nor terracing, producing much of their food by dry cultivation, but supplementing this by food-gathering, fishing, trapping and hunting activities. Most of them are multi-occupational practitioners, though there are specialists (mainly potters who have disappeared after the recent war, blacksmiths, weavers, and shamans). Sharing and ex- changing of goods in a small scale were the traditional customs, these resulting in the acquisition of much needed articles (salt, sugar, cloth, beads, ornaments) upon contact with the neighboring peoples; but trading brought to their communities many commodities of greater value (mainly palilmma' blades, gongs, and jewelry) and animals (mainly the carabao and horse) unknown to their culture and ways of living. The Manuvu' have for their neighbors the Talaandig of Bukidnon province, the Matigsalug of the middle Davao River area, the Attaw or Jangan of the midland area (in and around Calinan district where they were still dominant before the recent war) now within the jurisdiction of Davao City, and the Tahavawa' and Bilaan in the south and southeast * Professor of Anthropology, University of the Philippines. 2 This part of the paper is condensed from the introductory chapter of MANUVU' CusToM LAw, a larger work undertaken under the sponsorship of the University of the Philippines Law Center, Quezon City, and the bulk from one of the chapters of the same study. For a fuller discussion of Manuvu' culture, see the following writings by the same author: MANUVU' SOCIAL ORGANIZATION (Com- munity Development Research Council, U.P., Quezon City, 1973); Upland Bagobo (Manuvu'), in 2 F.M. ITMAR (ED.), ETHNIc GROUPS OF INSULAR SOUTHEAST ASIA; PHn.np- PINES AND FORMOSA 47-50; (Human Relations Area Files, New Haven, 1975) and TUWANG ATrENDS A WEDDING (Ateneo de Manila Univ. Press, Quezon City, 1975). In the spelling of Manuvu' words, the following symbols are used: the apostrophe /7 after a vowel stands for the glottal catch and the colon 1:/, also after a vowel, for vowel lengthening.

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