Now that she has knowledge about the Igorots and their history, she wanted to move forward and read how they are depicted in works of fiction. This time, she asked for fiction books about Igorots. She also wanted another set of recommendations from me.

She then noted that all the titles are non-fiction. She enthusiastically narrated that she read all the books I've recommended and that she found them engrossing and eye-opening. Then this February, I received another email from her. I didn't hear from her for a couple of months. I recommended the usual books by Salvador-Amores, Jenks, Scott, and a few others. She specifically asked what books should she read. She emailed me because she wanted help in looking for reading materials about the Igorots. She is completely clueless about the traditions and cultural practices of the Igorots. She doesn't speak nor understand Kankana-ey, the language of her mother. She explains that she is very proud of her Igorot origin but she adds that she rarely brings it up to people because aside from having 50% Igorot blood, there's not much else that would identify her as Igorot. Her father is from Angono, Rizal and her mother is from Tadian, Mt. She introduced herself as a half-Igorot and half-Tagalog. To anyone looking for reading materials about the Igorots, I highly suggest he/she visits the library of the University of the Philippines in Baguio or the bookstore at the Museo Kordilyera (also inside the UP Baguio campus).Īround November of last year, I received an email from a student currently studying at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Want to read about the art of Kalinga tattooing? Analyn Salvador-Amores has you covered. Want to read about pre-colonial and colonial Igorots? Read the books by William Henry Scott and Albert Jenks. There's a good number of non-fiction books out there that cover Igorot-related topics from our history starting from the arrival of the Spaniards to our cultural traditions (then and now). When it comes to non-fiction books about Igorots, I have quite a pile to recommend. These requests are usually due to them burdened with an assignment or a research project the completion of which requires them to accumulate knowledge about certain aspects of 'the Igorot'. Courtesy of this blog, every now and then I would receive an email, mostly from university students, asking for recommendations with regards to books about Igorots.

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