Limitation of Human Rights, Land Exclusion, and Tribal Extinction: The Agta Negritos of the Philippines

• Published in: Human organization Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 79 - 90
• Main Authors: HEADLAND, THOMAS N., HEADLAND, JANET D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oklahoma City, OK Society for Applied Anthropology 01-04-1997; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Agroecosystems; Agta; Community development; Crops; Demographic Change; Demographics; Demography; Depopulation; Economic impact; Environmental Degradation; Ethnology; Exclusion; Extinction; Factors; Farmers; Farming; Genocide; Headlands; Human ecology, environment; Human Rights; Human rights abuse; Human settlements; Hunter gatherers; Hunting and Gathering Societies; Indigenous Populations; Land; Land Use; Morphological source materials; Mortality; Negrito; Philippines; Physical anthropology, ethnobiology; Social impact; Traditional Societies; Tribal societies; Southeast Asia; Philippines; Competition; Negrito; Ethnocide; Ethnic minority; Competitive exclusion; Mortality Rate; Cause of death; Population decline; Morbidity; Land loss; Hunter-gatherer; Exclusion; Factor
• ISSN: 0018-7259; 1938-3525
• DOI: 10.17730/humo.56.1.k4875j7614437677

Southeast Asia's many Negrito groups have suffered formidable human rights violations during the past century. This article documents some of the abuses that have occurred in one particular Negrito society in the Philippines, the economic and demographic effect these abuses have had on that society, and how the members ofthat society are today responding (or failing to respond) to what is happening to them. The authors apply the competitive exclusion principle as a heuristic device for exploring why this social injustice is found worldwide whenever small-scale ethnic peoples are outnumbered by more powerful societies.