Philippines · Ifugao / Undated type or practice · no individual specimen
Hudhud, narratives in the rice fields
A voice is also a form of keeping
UNESCO describes Hudhud narratives performed during agricultural work and ritual, with elderly women prominent among the narrators. Knowledge lives in performance and reply rather than only in a printed page. Compare this with For the Voice: both invite attention to bodies and listening, but there is no claim of a historical link. This record is not a recording, a transcript or permission to perform a repertoire. It marks a source for further reading and asks what an archive misses when it treats the written document as the only form of knowledge.
- Date
- Undated type or practice · no individual specimen
- Maker / designer
- Ifugao narrators and choruses
- Material
- Narrative chants and agricultural practice
- Context
- A comparative record of work and shared life. Inclusion does not assign a socialist identity to its makers.
Evidence: Date not established · Place recorded at country level
Historical record
- UNESCO · Hudhud chants of the Ifugao · 00015
- This is a type or practice record, not a provenance for a particular household object.