Ifugao people

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The Ifugao people are an indigenous ethnic group from the mountainous Cordillera region of the northern Philippines, renowned for their rice terrace engineering, rich oral traditions, and complex kinship and ritual systems.

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Ifugao people canonical 9

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
indigenous people
country Philippines
ethnolinguisticGroupOf Philippines NERFINISHED
famousFor Ifugao Rice Terraces NERFINISHED
complex kinship system
rice terrace engineering
rich oral traditions
ritual system
language Ifugao languages NERFINISHED
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedIn Cordillera region NERFINISHED
Luzon
northern Philippines
oralLiterature Alim chants
Hudhud chants NERFINISHED
populationRegion Cordillera Administrative Region NERFINISHED
primaryProvince Ifugao NERFINISHED
regionOfOrigin Cordillera Central NERFINISHED
relatedEthnicGroup Bontoc people NERFINISHED
Ibaloi people NERFINISHED
Kalinga people NERFINISHED
Kankanaey people NERFINISHED
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism

Roman Catholicism
indigenous Ifugao religion
ritualSpecialist mumbaki
socialOrganization kinship-based communities
village-level leadership
traditionalAgriculture terraced rice farming
wet-rice cultivation
traditionalArt basketry
weaving
woodcarving
traditionalCrop rice
sweet potato
traditionalHousing Ifugao bale house
wooden stilt houses
traditionalMusic chanting
gong ensembles
traditionalReligionFeature ancestor worship
animism
ritual sacrifice
UNESCOCategory Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
World Heritage Site NERFINISHED
UNESCORecognition Hudhud chants of the Ifugao NERFINISHED
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras NERFINISHED

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Cordillera Central indigenousPeople Ifugao people
Batad Ifugao language spokenBy Ifugao people
Banaue Rice Terraces constructedBy Ifugao people
Kalinga people relatedGroup Ifugao people
Ifugao languages spokenBy Ifugao people
Ifugao languages ethnicityAssociated Ifugao people
Bontoc people neighboringGroup Ifugao people