The Tinguian is Fay-Cooper Cole’s detailed ethnographic monograph on a people of the mountainous interior of Luzon in the Philippines. Based on fieldwork, the study documents Tinguian social organization, religion, ritual, economy, agriculture, and material culture with scholarly thoroughness.
Cole was a respected anthropologist, and his account stands as a substantial early-twentieth-century ethnography of a Southeast Asian highland society. The monograph records ceremonies, beliefs, and daily life in careful detail, offering a valuable record of a culture in a particular historical moment. For students of Philippine anthropology and the comparative study of highland peoples, Cole’s work remains an important and frequently consulted source in the ethnographic literature.