
@article {183,
	title = {Making the Vanua: Collective Fishing Technology in Batanes and an Austronesian Archetype of Society},
	journal = {Philippine Studies},
	volume = {56},
	number = {2},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {187-199},
	abstract = {The Ivatan notion of a vanua (port) has linguistic connections to thewider Austronesian world. This article explores the term vanua in the verb form Mayvanuvanua or {\textquotedblleft}making a port,{\textquotedblright} which refers to a sacrificial rite performed at the beginning of the summer fishing season by mataw fishers in Batanes. {\textquotedblleft}Making the vanua{\textquotedblright} reproduces port polities of fishers competing to attract and successfully capture the fish dorado for a limited (seasonal) period of time. The article outlines the rite{\textquoteright}s symbolic elements and shows ethnographically the resulting collective as an organized group of fishers under a system of government, and moreover one which also relates to two other kinds of social groups in Batanes life: cooperative work groups (payuhwan) as well as groups of persons that drink together.},
	url = {http://www.philippinestudies.net/files/journals/1/articles/2940/public/2940-3156-1-PB.pdf},
	author = {Mangahas, Maria}
}
