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Agta of the Cagayan Valley

Profile:
Other names: Negritos
Population: 1,100
Location: Central Cagayan, Philippines
Characteristics: darker skinned, Qrk and curly hair, thick-lipped and small-nosed.
Traditional Clothing: tapis (skirt) for women and bahag (breechcloth) for men.

Worldview, Culture and Social and Cultural Organization

Agtas engage arranged marriages. Parents choose their child's partner and they can get married as young as 14 years old.

There is a high mortality rate within the Agta community. The leading causes of death are diseases - tuberculosis, pneumonia, leprosy - along with homicide, malnutrition, alcoholism, and unsanitary living conditions.
The ancestors of today's Agta are assumed to be the aboriginals of that archipelago having migrated into those islands 20 000 - 30 000 years ago.
The traditional houses of the Ågta people are made from materials such bamboo; talahib (cogon) coconvt abaca bark

Issues Confronting the Group

The Agta people are in danger of being chased off their ancestral land. Big corporations are tearing down forests and limiting their hunting practices. Their language is dying and their population is rapidly declining. With the lack of education, their languages and traditions are not being propagated or preserved nor are they recognized by other Filipinos. The lack of medicine and healthcare that they receive also contributes to their high mortality rate.

Media

An infographic of the contents here about the Agta by Hannah Baldoza, and Mary Salamanque - University of the Philippines Baguio

References

Griffin, P. Bion, and Agnes Estioko-Griffin (1985)/ The Agta of Northeastern Luzon: Recent Studies. Cebu City: San Carlos Publications.

Peterson, Jean T. (1978). The Ecology of Social Boundaries: Agta Foragers of the Philippines. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Thomas Headland. Agta Negritos of the Philippines, http://www.culturalsurvival.org/

Robinson C. (2008) DUPANINGAN AGTA: GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, AND TEXTS, https://linguistics.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb/edu.ling.d7/files/sitefiles/people/robnson/Robinson-Dupaningan.pdf