"Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974" by Renato Rosaldo

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"This study will examine Renato Rosaldo's Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974, focusing on Rosaldo's point of view on the subject and the role of that perspective on the material in the book. The study will argue that Rosaldo's sympathetic attitude toward the people in his research affects the work in positive ways. Ethnographic research carried out over a lengthy period of time inevitably includes biases on the part of any author. The question is not whether there is a bias, but whether the author is aware of that bias and remains conscious of it in order to try to keep it from distorting that research or the findings, Rosaldo is aware of his sympathy for the people, and, in fact, immediately acknowledges it in the first words of the book:
I am most indebted to my Ilongot friends and companions..."

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