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Ref ID: 35200
Ref Type: Journal Article
Authors: Bacus, Elisabeth A.
Title: Political economy and interaction: archaeological investigations of the Dumaguete polity in the central Philippine islands
Date: 2000
Source: Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes: Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Melaka Papers, Vol. 4
Abstract: This paper summarizes the results of my research on protohistoric complex polities in the Dumaguete-Bacong area of southeastern Negros Island in the central Philippines. A preliminary report on the 1988-89 survey and excavations was presented at the 1994 IPPA meeting (Bacus 1996b). In this paper I focus on results pertaining to the internal organization of the Dumaguete polity's economy and chiefly élites' external political-economic relations. To begin to elucidate variability among protohistoric Philippines polities, the paper concludes with a brief comparison of Dumaguete's political economy with that of two other contemporary Visayan polities, Cebu and Tanjay.
Date Created: 6/8/2001
Volume: 20
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