Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Midst of Change: The Codamon Family, a Saga (A Narrative Account of Culture)*

Abstract

A first person expository narrative on two (2) facets of a Philippine indigenous culture mirroring sub-culture within a culture as exemplified by the family under study which comes of mix culture parentage as raised within a highly animistic societal matrix equally laced in Catholicism by European missionary fervor in the Cordillera Administrative Region of the country. A member of this family, the writer talks about the ways of her culture, blending and transcending traditional bounds and ties that bind, to aspire for immortality, rather than face decay.