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Pallesen, Kemp. "Reciprocity in Samal Marriage." In Sulu Studies, edited by Gerard
Rixhon. Vol. 1. Jolo, Philippines: Notre Dame of Jolo College, 1972.
Sather, Clifford. "Bajau Laut." In Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, edited by
Frank M. LeBar. Vol. 2. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1975.
Spoehr, Alexander. Zamboanga and Sulu: An Archaeological Approach to Ethnic Diversity.
Ethnology Monographs, No. 1. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Department
of Anthropology, 1973.
Stone, Richard L. "Intergroup Relations Among the Tausug, Samals, and Badjaw of
Sulu." In The Muslim Filipinos: Their History, Society, and Contemporary Problems,
edited by Peter G. Gowing and Robert D. McAmis. Manila: Solidaridad
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Warren, James F. The North Borneo Chartered Company's Administration of the Bajau,
1878-1909: The Pacification of a Maritime Nomadic People. Southeast Asia
Series, No. 22. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1971.
Articles
Casino, Eric S. "Jama Mapun Ethnoecology: Economic and Symbolic." Asian Studies
5 (1967): 1-32.
Rixhon, Gerard. "The Religious Attitude of the Manubul Samal: An Appraisal." Notre
Dame Journal 1 (1969): 1-18.
Sather, Clifford. "Social Rank and Marriage Payments in an Immigrant Moro Community
in Malaysia." Ethnology 6 (1967): 97-102.
Unpublished Manuscript
Pallesen, Kemp. "Linguistic Convergence and Culture Contact." Ph.D. dissertation,
University of California, Berkeley, 1976.
William H. Geoghegan
Population figures updated by Richard V. Weekes
SANGIL The Sangil Muslims number about 4,000 and live for the most part
in the Sarangani and Balut islands off the southeastern coast of Mindanao in the
Republic of the Philippines. Their language is usually classed with the Central
Philippine subgroup of Malayo-Polynesian languages.
The Sangil are not to be confused with the several thousands of Sangir, who
are Indonesian nationals, mostly Christians, inhabiting the southern coast of
mainland Mindanao in the Sarangani Bay area. The Sangir are recent migrants
of one or two generations standing from the Sangihe or Sangir and Talaud island
chains of Indonesia between northern Sulawezi and southern Mindanao.
The Sangil represent a much earlier migration from the same island dating
back at least to the seventeenth century. Today they are regarded by both Indonesia
and the Philippines as Philippine nationals. The substitution of the / for
the r in their name probably came about through contact with the Maguindanao
and other coastal Mindanao Muslim groups with whom the Sangil have been
undergoing a process of acculturation and absorption.