This book traces how the Maritime Southeast Asia tribal societies that prosepered under the “Age of Commerce” had lost their autonomy in the course of modernization and became minorities. So far, the maritime world has not been fully described due to the limitation of written documents, the general tendency to follow national historical writing, and the mainland-centered historical view. Focusing on that Southeast Asia world, this book attempts to present a new historical image by utilizing genealogy and oral tradition. Specifically, this book looks into three societies: the Maguindanao society, which formed an Islamic kingdom and became the strongest force in Eastern Maritime Southeast Asia in the heyday of its power; the Snagir societies, which did not go beyond the small kingdoms; and lastly the Bagobo society which remained a tribal society.

Sinzo Hayaes, Ph.D., is a professor of Southeast Asian history at Osaka City University. Hea earned his B.L. from the University of Tokyo and his Ph.D. from Murdoch University in 1984. He has published widely on the history of East Maritime Southeast Asia and the Philippines-Japan relations. He is the author of Senso no Kioku wo Aruku: Tonan-Ajia no Ima [A Walk Through War Memories in Southeast Asis] (Iwanami Shoten, 2007); Rekishi Kenkyu to Chiiki Kenkyu no Hazamade [Historical Studies and Area Studies: For Writing a Philippine History] (Hosei University Press, 2004); Benguet Imin no Kyozo to Jitsuzo [The Myth and the Reality of the Japanese “Benguet Emigrants” in the Philippines, 1903-1905] (Dobunkan, 1989); and co-editor of Iwanami Koza: Tonan-Ajia-shi, Bekkan [Series: History of Southeast Asia, Special Volume] (Iwanami Shoten, 2003); Filipino no Jiten [Encyclopedia of the Philippines] (Doho-sha, 1992), among others. English articles include those that have apeeared in Philippine Studies, Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, and other academic journals

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