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The Sulu Zone Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

Heather Sutherland
Heather Sutherland
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Her e-mail contact is hsutherland@compuserve.com.
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Abstract

Iranun and Balangingi. Globalization, maritime raiding and the birth of ethnicity By JAMES FRANCIS WARREN Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2002. Pp. xxii, 585. Maps, Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index.

James Warren's rewarding Iranun and Balangingi (2002) expands on his classic The Sulu Zone (1981) but retains the explanatory model: Southern Philippine slave-raiding (1768–1898) was caused by the capitalist world economy's demand for commodities. This essay suggests that Warren's depiction of servility is too undifferentiated, that he may have overestimated labour needs and elite control while underestimating free trade.

Type
Review Article
Information
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , February 2004 , pp. 133 - 157
Copyright
© 2004 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

I am indebted to Barbara and Leonard Andaya, David Henley and Campbell MacKnight for stimulating discussions on this theme when I first began to consider it. None, of course, should bear any blame for mistakes of fact or interpretation in the following pages.