フィリピン・コルディレラ山地社会の「アメリカ化」とイゴロットの対日協力問題
スポンサーリンク
概要
- 論文の詳細を見る
The issue of Filipino political collaboration under Japanese occupation (1941-45) has evokedseveral controversies within Filipino and American scholarship. The former has dwelt on theissue of patriotism while the latter has focused on the wartime resilience of the oligarchic elite.This paper rethinks those issues with a particular focus on "Americanization" in the CordilleraMountain Societies of Northern Luzon. The indigenous residents in that area were generallycalled (and officially termed) "Igorot" during the American colonial period. Under the name of"benevolent assimilation," Igorot intellectuals collaborated with Americans and their lowlandercounterparts in order to modernize their societies, which ultimately led to further discriminationas well as exploitation by their "developed" patrons.During the Japanese Occupation, a group of the Mitsui Mining Company was able to mobilizeFilipino workers and conduct copper mining at Mankayan located in the southwestern part of theMountains. As revealed in Mitsuiʼs memoirs edited in 1974, the groupʼs operations could not behandled without depending on the former colonial relationships at the mining sites. The Japanesefriendship narrative with the Filipinos was also the product of ethnic tension between lowlanderand Igorot created by American colonial policy. On the other hand, local accounts showed that thereason behind Igorot intellectualsʼ collaboration with Japan as well as resistance to it was thedesire to modernize, a pattern first found during the American colonial period. In conclusion, Ishow the contradictions of "Americanization" in Igorot societies, which led to both emancipationand repression during the Japanese Occupation.
- 2012-07-31