“This volume is a landmark in studies of Mindanao, taking its subject in the broadest possible context. Massively documented, with almost three dozen individual substantive chapters, it will serve as an invaluable reference for those undertaking almost any inquiry into the southern Philippines. Ranging from first-person narratives to dense chapters with tables full of numbers, many different styles are used. Often innovative, authors try to avoid a Manila-centric gaze and instead focus on the particularities of an incredibly variegated landscape of peoples, languages, economies, and cultures. In this light, the authors do not speak with one voice but rather allow a serious reader to see a range of viewpoints from Mindanao archipelago.” —Steven Rood Author of The Philippines: What Everyone Needs to Know Published in 2022
