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Alterity and cultural existence / Julius D. Mendoza -- Feasts of merit, the politics of ethnography and ethnic icons in the Luzon Highlands / Susan Russell -- "Tradition" as innovation, adaptation, and continuity among the Sagada Igorots of Northern Luzon as exemplified by the Dangtey / Villia Jefremovas -- Agricultural commercialization in Cordillera communities / Lorelei Crisologo Mendoza -- Searching for solutions, microfinance, poverty alleviation, and women's work in the Philippine Cordillera / B. Lynne Milgram -- Locality, place, and globalization on the Cordillera / Deirdre McKay -- Environmental stakes and legal pluralism in the Philippines and Indonesia / Padmapani L. Perez -- Simple but happy vs backward and miserable, representations of Vietnam's mountain minorities in Vietnamese newspapers / Dana Kim and A. Terry Rambo -- Power, property, and panarchy, opening the black box of cultural capital / Melanie G. Wiber.