Delving into the Manobo tribes literary pieces and culture

Abstract:Cultural values represent the core beliefs, norms, and practices that shape the identity and behavior of individuals within a specific community. Understanding these values is crucial for maintaining cultural heritage, fostering social cohesion, and promoting cross-cultural understanding. This study aimed to explore the influence of the Manobo’s literary pieces from their tribes and their relation to cultural values that also includes language preservation as a one way of preserving their culture. The researchers employed a cultural values framework to comprehend and examine its cultural values. This qualitative study utilized research corpora where we collected and analyzed. The researchers collected five (5) literary genres of Manobo's tribe such as, songs, riddles, proverbs, story, and poem. The major findings revealed the values embedded in the Manobo literary pieces prove that has a significant impact on the Man community obo in their generation past to the next generation. Thus, the collected literary texts are well-founded from the cultural values depicting humility, strong faith, and patriotism. The major findings revealed the values embedded in the Manobo literary pieces by analyzing with the use of textual analysis. Through a thorough process using the cultural linguistic framework, the embedded values were depicted to prove the significant impact of the literary pieces to the Manobo community to be passed from generation to the next generation. Keywords: Cultural values, tradition, Manobo tribe, Philippine literarytext, Competing Values framework