S1E7: Tasaday
The world encounters an isolated Filipino tribe, culminating in one of the greatest controversies in the history of anthropology.
This episode features an original interview with linguistics professor Dr. Lawrence Reid who has written a number of papers on the Tasaday including: “The Tasaday Language: A Key to Tasaday Prehistory;” “The Tasaday Tapes;” and “Another Look at the Language of the Tasaday." At the 2018 Conference of Hunter-Gatherers in Malaysia, Dr. Reid provided an update on the Tasaday's current situation.
Additional Sources:
1993 Nova Tasaday Documentary Part 1
1993 Nova Tasaday Documentary Part 2
The Cave People of the Philippines
A Message from the Stone Age Part 1
A Message from the Stone Age Part 2
The Stone-Age Tasaday - The Museum of Hoaxes
The Mind-Bending Saga of the Stone Age Tasaday Tribe of the Philippines
This episode also features author Robin Hemley, writer of Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday. Other publications include: Borderline Citizen; Turning Life into Fiction; Nola; All You Can Eat; Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists; The Big Ear; The Last Studebaker; The Mouse Town and Other Stories; DO-OVER!; A Field Guide for Immersion Writing; and Reply All: Stories.