ABSTRACT
Originally published by the University of California Press; reprinted by permission of The Regents of the University of California. From Ifugao Law by Roy F. Barton, pp. 85-88. Roy Franklin Barton lived from 1883 to 1947. Wholly self-taught in anthropology—he was originally a dentist—he produced some of the best ethnography of the Philippines. Beginning there as a supervising teacher in the civil service in 1906, he soon shifted to full-time study of Ifugao culture, returning to the United States in 1916. In 1930 he visited the Doukhobors and other cooperative colonies and, in that year, migrated to the Soviet Union where he continued his ethnological work until 1940. He returned to the Philippines in 1941 and soon thereafter was captured by the invading Japanese armies and spent three years in an internment camp. Among his other works are The Religion of the Ifugaos, The Kalingas: Their Institutions and Custom Laws, The Half Way Sun, and Philippine Pagans: The Autobiographies of Three Ifugaos.
