Documenting Ifugao oral literature genres

Category: Projects funded by the World Oral Literature Project

Documenting Ifugao oral literature genres. Six weeks of fieldwork to describe the main oral literature genres of the Ifugao, an Austronesian-speaking people of the Northern Philippines, under a Memorandum of Understanding with the Intangible Cultural Heritage Office, Lagawe. Representative examples of each genre will be recorded in audio and video and transcribed, with both the text and music and presented on a DVD. Full written outputs will be posted on the web.

Field Workers: Dr Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation), Iza Campos (Center for Ethnomusicology, University of the Philippines). Collaborators include Manuel Dulawan (Kiangan) and Lily Luglug-Beyer (Banaue). Grant: $9,736. Status: transcription is underway.