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Puró refers to a kindred type of social organization found among various ethnic groups in the Philippines. These groups, scattered across northern Luzon, Mindoro, Palawan and other islands, exhibit remarkably similar settlement patterns, social structures, and economic and political systems despite having little contact with one another. Their settlements typically consist of clusters of houses located near swidden farms and water sources. Settlement size ranges from single families to larger, complex settlements with multiple related families.

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Puro

Puró refers to a kindred type of social organization found among various ethnic groups in the Philippines. These groups, scattered across northern Luzon, Mindoro, Palawan and other islands, exhibit remarkably similar settlement patterns, social structures, and economic and political systems despite having little contact with one another. Their settlements typically consist of clusters of houses located near swidden farms and water sources. Settlement size ranges from single families to larger, complex settlements with multiple related families.

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Puró

Puró

 derived from a Sulod (also known as Bukidnon) word for settlement.


 kindred type of social organization

Ethnic Communities with Puró- Style of Social Organization

 found in different upland and coastal areas of the country


 identified by fieldworkers according to the ethnic labels people use to call themselves and the
geographical location of their habitat

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

NORTHERN LUZON
1. Ibanag
2. Ikalahan
3. Ilongot
4. Itawis
5. I’wak
6. Kalanguya
7. Yogad

 I’wak, Ikalahan and Ilongot : are inhabit the contiguous upland terrain of Northern Nueva
Viscaya, Western Isabela and Southern Ifugao
 Yogad, Itawis and Ibanag: are encountered in small scattered settlements in Isabela and Cagayan.

MINDORO
1. Hanunoo
2. Buhid
3. Alangan
4. Iraya
5. Batangan
6. Tadyawan
7. Ratagnon

 Iraya occupy the greater portion of the highlands of western Mindoro.


 Ratagnon, Hanunoo and Buhid inhabit the easthern side of Mindoro
 Batangan, Tadyawan and Alangan are in the heart of the island.

PALAWAN
1. Tau’t Bato – they are slash-and-burn agriculturist, inhabit caves during rainy days.
2. Palaw’anen
3. Ke-ney

 The Sulod inhabit the interior of Panay Island.


 Magahats (southernNegros)
 Subanun (Zamboanga, Western Mindanao )
 Tiruray and T’boli (Cotabato & Sultan Kudarat.
 These ethnic communities, scattered in different places and islands with relatively little or no contact
with each other at all, have amazingly similar
- Settlement pattern
- Techno-economic system
- Social structure and organization
- Political leadership
- Religious ceremonies

SETTLEMENT PATTERN
 valley slopes, rolling hillsides, and close to swidden and accessible to water supply.

Settlements whose boundaries can be defined

• Subanun and Buhid settlements can be defined only

- “with reference to the quantity and quality of social activities.

• Tiruray,

- “ can easily name the various households and settlements which comprise his own neighborhood.”

Most settlement exhibit “ Little stability or continuity”

 Buhid Mangyan

- “have achieved a more or less stable equilibrium with their environment and do not regularly
pioneer new areas of virgin forest.”

 Ilongot

- “ who show concern to maintain continuity of local group composition through coordinated
movements within the same territory.

On the whole, almost all indigenous ethnic communities with Puró type of social organization share the
Hanunoo basic settlement types:

(a) Minor Settlement -single cluster with at least two houses (i.e., roof structures) but only one resident
family.

(b) Simple Settlement -single cluster with at least three houses and two or more resident families, but with
only one spouse set in the oldest generation.
(c) Complex Settlement-single cluster with at least four houses and three or more resident families,
including at least two siblings (other than spouses) in the oldest generation.
(d) Compound Settlement-Linked cluster comprising two separate but close house cluster (not more than a
few hundred meters apart) of the types listed above in the following combinations: ab, ac, bb, be, cc but not
aa

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