会议时间：2017年3月22—24日
会议地点：美国·洛杉矶·长滩会议娱乐中心
演讲嘉宾：Consuelo De Luna Habito，菲律宾开放大学

摘要：Palawan is found on the western border of the Philippine archipelago. Its geography consists of an extensive coastline featuring mostly karst or limestone islands and rugged mountains. It is closest to mainland Asia and is believed to have received the earliest wave of human inhabitants from the eastern edge of the Asian continent and its adjacent seas. Its indigenous peoples belong to several ethnolinguistic groups with their own language or dialect and traditions. These groups dwell along the long stretch of the Palawan coastline and small islands or in the interiors of mountains and islands. Each group has unique rituals, festivals and unique mix of animo-Christian or Muslim beliefs. This study describes, in a form of a narrative, the indigenous peoples of Palawan engaged in wood carving and how they live with wood in their everyday life through video documentation and key informant interviews. It is interesting to note that women participate in the woodcarving. It will also describe the patterns and designs used, their methodology, and their significance. Aside from boat paddles or oars, wooden receptacles topped with animals shaped covers and native animals such as lizards, roosters, hornbills, wild pigs, civet cats are a contrast of black against the natural white etched sections of the wood. Human forms are also carved out of light native trees and are used for rituals. Wood carvings of more recent origins consisted of large carved-out trunks, bowls, long boats as decor items, tables, chairs and reliefs of human faces.