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ABSTRACT

Traditional Ilokano Courtship and Wedding Practices: Historico-Cultural Background and Social Implications
Maricon Guillermo, Ph.D. with Macario Salva
Northwestern University, Laoag City

One of the most intricate, community-participated and culturally-loaded episodes of Ilokano adult life are courtship and wedding.  Involving a system of “initiation rites” to starting or expanding a family, traditional Ilokano courtship and wedding practices can be a bewildering train of events to the unversed observer.

Complemented with ethnographic visual images, this is a descriptive presentation of traditional Ilokano courtship and wedding practices that are being challenged and gradually displaced and replaced by Western influence.  This presentation likewise explores the historical and cultural background of such practices — looking into some parallelism of related rituals in other indigenous groups in Northern Luzon — and examines the social implications of the same.   

  
 

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