TY - JOUR
AU - Docot, Dada
AB - Film Review ing (Rosaldo 1980). The well- documented and perhaps even “popularized” fierceness of the indigenous groups in these highlands has led to them being perceived as Directed by Mark Lester Valle, 2014, 119 minutes, color. violent and savage, and makes the existence of their Distributed by GMA Network, Inc., www.cinetotoo.com. “egalitarian headhunting society” seem almost surreal. The film lists a number of factors that answer the Dada Docot filmmakers’ question, namely, what was it that made University of British Columbia Bontok once a society without rape? For one, traditional Walang Rape sa Bontok (Bontok, Rapeless) discusses dwelling structures affected the Bontok-Igorot’s prac - the postcolonial reality of the Philippines, where sex- tice of physical intimacy. As an example, elders show ual violence against women is increasingly normalized. the filmmakers an ato and olog, the traditional gender- A conversation between two women opens the film. segregated dormitories where boys and girls used to be The film’s head writer and the film’s research assistant socialized, and where they would eventually find their engage in a conversation about their personal embed- partners. Second, the Bontok- Igorot’s ideology of gen- dedness in the subject, both having experienced sex- der included respect for 
TI - Walang Rape sa Bontok (Bontok, Rapeless)
JF - Visual Anthropology Review
DO - 10.1111/var.12110
DA - 2016-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/walang-rape-sa-bontok-bontok-rapeless-t0ZOtQWPf9
SP - 192
EP - 195
VL - 32
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -