Maguindanaon [Muslim community in Mindanao, Philippines] rule and the rice farming circle
2011
Gonzales, D., Philippine Rice Research Inst., Maligaya, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija (Philippines) | Guinness, P., Australian National Univ., Canberra (Australia)
The Moro insurgencies in the Philippines are among the worlds' longest-running armed conflicts. In its present incarnation, the contemporary Bangsa Moro is three decades old. This long history of colonization and conflict between government forces and Muslim separated groups fighting for an independent Muslim State in Central Mindanao,Philippines have a major role within which the 'People of the flooded plains' or the Maguindanaons conducts their lives today. Through the years, various forces continues to influence and alter the social fabric of the Muslim society. This backdrop of conflict serves as a starting point in exploring the governance in Maguindanao and performance of agriculture as the prime livelihood activity, particularly rice farming. This one-year ethnographic study focuses on the socio-political landscape in Maguindanao in order to understand farmers who remain subsistence producers and conservatives in welcoming agricultural development despite government subsidies. The relationship between Datus as community leaders/landowners and tenants are analyzed in this study. The characteristic features of this basic landscape create opportunities and exert a determined pressure on class and power relations. It is the enforce system of land ownership that makes landlord-tenant relations both possible and common as a focus of class conflict. It is concluded in this study that class-conflict encouraged Maguindanaon farmers to keep their yield consistent.Farmers value more their social relationship than economic gains from high yield. Farmers keep their yield low to maintain social order.
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