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1 Nov 2011 We have significantly reduced our listing of books for sale, but in the months to come all those removed will appear as free downloads. Contact us to be alerted of new publications and free downloads.
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Linguistics top
The Bidayuh Language: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Calvin R. Rensch, Carolyn M. Rensch, Jonas Noeb and Robert Sulis Ridu. 2006. xiv, 449 pp. $20.00 More...
A Grammar of Yakan Sherri Brainard and Dietlinde Behrens. 2002. 221 pp. $10.00 Book set discount. More...
Ibatan: A Grammatical Sketch of the Language Babuyan Claro Island Rundell D. Maree. 2007. xxviii, 410 pp. $13.00 More...
Piakandatu ami Dr. Howard P. McKaughan Loren Billings and Nelleke Goudswaard, eds. 2010. xvi, 371 pp. $17.50 More...
Role Relationships and Lexical Descriptions Applied to Batad Ifugao Leonard E. Newell. 2008. xvii, 175 pp. $10.00 Book set discount. More...
Yakan Texts Dietlinde Behrens. 2007. $10.00 Book set discount. More...
Anthropology and Oral Literature top
The Agta People: A Photographic Depiction of
The Casiguran Agta people of northern Aurora Province, Luzon Island, the Philippines Thomas N. Headland, Janet D. Headland and Ray T. Uehara, comps. 2011. xii, 229 pp.
USD$27.95 from SIL International Academic Bookstore: academic_books@sil.org (We stock minimal quantities in the Philippines for sale to local libraries, academics, and students. P750.00) More...
An Anthology of Ilianen Manobo Folktales Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, ed. 1981. xiii, 299 pp. $10.00 Book set discount. More...
Good Character and Bad Character: The Manobo Storytelling Audience as Society's Jurors Hazel J. Wrigglesworth & Pengendá Mengsenggilid. 1993. 238 pp. $10.00 Book set discount.
The Ibatan: A genealogy of the people of Babuyan Claro Island Judith Y.M. Maree, comp. 2005. xlii, 807 pp. $32.00 More...
The Maiden of Many Nations: The Skymaiden Who Married a Man from Earth Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, ed. 1991. 321 pp. $10.00 Book set discount. More...
Narrative Episodes from the Tulalang Epic Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, Ampatuan Ampalid, Letipá Andaguer, Adriano Ampangan. 2008. ix, 274 pp. $12.00 Book set discount. More...
The Singing Rooster: A Manobo Chief Emphasizes the Manobo Work Ethic Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, Tigar Zacharius, Lingkà Ansulang, Ampatuan Ampalid, Pengendà Mengsenggilid. 2009. ix, 142 pp. $12.00 Book set discount. More...
The Song from the Mango Tree: A Manobo Raconteur Introduces His Repertoire of Oral Literature with a Favourite Trickster Narrative Hazel J. Wrigglesworth, Ampatuan Ampalid. 2004. xi, 281 pp. $12.00 Book set discount. More...
A Voice From Many Rivers: Central Subanen Oral and Written Literature Edgar Aleo and others. Translated and annotated by Felicia Brichoux. 2002. 417 pp. $12.00 Book set discount. More...
A Voice From Mt. Apo: Oral and written essays on the culture and world view of the Manobo Written and recounted by Manuel Arayam and others. Translated and annotated by Ena E. Vander Molen. 2005. xxiii, 275 pp. $12.00 Book set discount. More...
A Voice From the Hills: Essays on the Culture and World View of the Western Bukidnon Manobo People Francisco Col-om Polenda. Translated and edited by Richard E. Elkins. 1989. 401 pp. $12.00 Book set discount. More...
What Place for Hunter-gatherers in Millennium Three? Thomas N. Headland and Doris L. Blood, eds. 2002. xxiii, 105 pp. $24.00
This book takes a hard look at the traumatic cultural changes that our planet's remaining hunter-gatherer societies experienced in the twentieth century.
Dictionaries and Lexicography (see also under SIPL) top
Batad Ifugao Dictionary with Ethnographic Notes Leonard E. Newell & Francis Bon'og Poligon, comps. 1993. 744 pp. $30.00 Book set discount.
Internationally acclaimed as a model of thoroughness in ethnographic dictionary-making. Useful companion to Handbook on Lexicography.
Handbook on Lexicography Leonard E. Newell. 1995. 368 pp. $15.00 Book set discount.
An exposition of sound lexicographical principles and procedures; with examples from Philippine languages.
Manobo Dictionary: of Manobo as spoken in the Agusan river valley and the Diwata mountain range Teofilo E. Gelacio, Jason K. L. Lee and Ronald L. Schumacher, comps. 2000. xii, 208 pp. $8.00 Book set discount. More...
Mapun-English Dictionary Millard A. Collins and Virginia R. Collins, comps. Sulfilix A. Hashim, Mapun language consultant. 2001. 703 pp. $15.00 Book set discount.
Mapun is a Sama dialect spoken on the island of Cagayan de Tawi-tawi (or Mapun) as well as parts of Palawan and Malaysia.
A Masbatenyo-English Dictionary Elmer P. Wolfenden. 2001. xi, 736 pp. $20.00 Book set discount. More...
Romblomanon Dictionary Leonard E. Newell and Emilia Tarbardilla, comps. 2006. xviii, 853 pp. $30.00 Book set discount. More...
Tausug-English Dictionary: Kabtangan Iban Maana Irene U. Hassan, Seymour A. Ashley & Mary L. Ashley, comps. 1994. xi, 688 pp. $20.00 Book set discount. More...
Tboli-English Dictionary Silin A. Awed, Lillian B. Underwood, Vivian M. Van Wynen, comps. 2004. xv, 720 pp. $25.00 Book set discount. More...
Yakan-English Dictionary Dietlinde Behrens, compiler. 2002. 610 pp. $30.00 Book set discount.
Yakan belongs to the Sama-Badjaw subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages and is spoken by people of the same name who live on Basilan Island as well as on some smaller surrounding islands. More...
Bibliographies top
Indigenous Groups of Sabah: An Annotated Bibliography of Linguistic and Anthropological sources (2 vol set) Hans J.B. Combrink, Craig Soderberg, Michael E. Boutin and Alanna Y. Boutin (comps). 2006. Pt 1, 299 pp; Pt 2, 309 pp. $23.00 for 2-volume set. for 2-volume set. More...
Language & Culture top
Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures (SPLC) combines two former publications titled Studies in Philippine Linguistics (SIPL) and the SIPL Supplementary Series: Philippine Texts.
Series Closure With the publication of the 10-ICAL papers (volumes 15-19, 2007-2008) the SPLC series is closed. SIPL and SPLC were a joint venture of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines and SIL Philippines between 1977-2008.
All journal articles previously found in this section, will in the months to come, all appear as free downloads. Contents of each issue can be found in the links below.