Muslim Rulers and Rebels: Everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines
Thomas McKenna
Abstract
This book provides an account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines and challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism, as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. It examines Muslim separatism against a background of more than four hundred years of political relations among indigenous Muslim rulers, their subjects, and external powers seeking the subjugation of Philippine Muslims. The book also explores the motivations of the ordinary men and women who fight in armed separatist struggles, and investigates the formation of na ... More
Keywords: Muslim separatist rebellion, Philippines, nationalism, culture, power, Muslim separatism, nationalist identities
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1998 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520210158 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520210158.001.0001 |
