Not Altogether Lost
James Hamilton-Paterson: The Tasaday, 19 June 2003
Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday
by Robin Hemley.
Farrar, Straus, 352 pp., $25, May 2003,0 374 17716 3 Show More
by Robin Hemley.
Farrar, Straus, 352 pp., $25, May 2003,
“... offshoot of Cotabato Manobo, a language unrelated to T’boli, the tongue of the surrounding area. Robin Hemley’s book is a brave and wholly convincing attempt to find the truth concerning the ‘anthropological fraud of the century’. These days, and certainly in the Philippines, the received opinion is that the Tasaday were unquestionably a hoax ... ”
