Tasaday

Tasaday
	The Tasaday people in their homeland, the last primal rainforest of Mindanao.
Total population
	216 (2008)
Regions with significant populations
	Philippines (Mindanao)
Languages
	Tasaday dialect of Manobo, Cebuano, Tagalog, English
Religion
	Animism
Related ethnic groups
	Manobo people, other Lumad, Sama-Bajau, Moro, Visayans, other Filipino peoples, other Austronesian peoples

The Tasaday (tɑˈsɑdɑj) are a Philippine indigenous people of the Lake Sebu area in Mindanao. They are considered to belong to the Lumad group, along with the other indigenous groups on the island. They attracted widespread media attention in 1971, when a journalist of the Manila Associated Press bureau chief reported their discovery, amid apparent "Stone Age" technology and in complete isolation from the rest of Philippine society. Multiple agencies were also contacted, such as National Geographic.^[1] They again attracted attention in the 1980s when some accused the Tasaday of living in the jungle and speaking in their dialect as being part of an elaborate hoax, and doubts were raised as to their isolation and nature as a separate ethnic group.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The Tasaday language is distinct from that of neighboring tribes, and linguists believe it probably split from the adjacent Manobo languages 200 years ago.^[6]^[7]^[1]

^ ^a ^b Reid, Lawrence A. 1992. "The Tasaday language: a key to Tasaday prehistory." In Thomas N. Headland (ed.), The Tasaday controversy: Assessing the evidence, 180–93. American Anthropological Association Scholarly Series, 28. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
^ Gentle Tasaday Stone Age People In The Philippine Rain Forest, John Nance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1971
^ "Shaping and Reshaping the Tasaday: A Question of Cultural Identity – A Review Article", AA Yengoyan, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1991
^ Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday, Robin Hemley. U of Nebraska Press, 2007
^ Dumont, Jean-Paul (1988). "The Tasaday, Which and Whose? Toward the Political Economy of an Ethnographic Sign". Cultural Anthropology. 3 (3): 261–75. doi:10.1525/can.1988.3.3.02a00030. JSTOR 656174.
^ Molony, Carol H. 1992. "The Tasaday language: Evidence for authenticity?." In Thomas N. Headland (ed.), The Tasaday controversy: Assessing the evidence, 107–16. American Anthropological Association Scholarly Series, 28. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
^ Reid, Lawrence A. "Another Look at the Language of the Tasaday" (PDF). Retrieved 12 June 2011.

[Reid,_Lawrence_A_1992-1] Reid, Lawrence A. 1992. "The Tasaday language: a key to Tasaday prehistory." In Thomas N. Headland (ed.), The Tasaday controversy: Assessing the evidence, 180–93. American Anthropological Association Scholarly Series, 28. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.

[2] Gentle Tasaday Stone Age People In The Philippine Rain Forest, John Nance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1971

[3] "Shaping and Reshaping the Tasaday: A Question of Cultural Identity – A Review Article", AA Yengoyan, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1991

[4] Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday, Robin Hemley. U of Nebraska Press, 2007

[5] Dumont, Jean-Paul (1988). "The Tasaday, Which and Whose? Toward the Political Economy of an Ethnographic Sign". Cultural Anthropology. 3 (3): 261–75. doi:10.1525/can.1988.3.3.02a00030. JSTOR 656174.

[Molony,_Carol_H_1992-6] Molony, Carol H. 1992. "The Tasaday language: Evidence for authenticity?." In Thomas N. Headland (ed.), The Tasaday controversy: Assessing the evidence, 107–16. American Anthropological Association Scholarly Series, 28. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.

[7] Reid, Lawrence A. "Another Look at the Language of the Tasaday" (PDF). Retrieved 12 June 2011.

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