northern Kalinga areas. The Kalinga are aware of these divisions and often refer to the social and cultural characteristics of each subdivision. the home region for a Kalinga is where one has relatives and where one's loyalties are anchored, and people from other regions, whether Kalinga are not, are not to be trusted. This is a throwback to the time before the peace pact, but the peace can be broken at any time (Dozier, 1983, 10-11). The largest geographical unit recognized by the Kalinga is the region, and region and kinship circle are equated in the thinking of the people. Each region contains a number of villages and hamlets, with different sizes of village common to the different regions. Hamlets are never very permanent for the Northern Kalinga, which was probably once the case for all the Kalinga (Dozier, 1983, 12-14).
The household is the residence unit for the Kalinga, occupied by a nuclear family and perhaps an ag
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