The Tasaday story created an immediate sensation, first as an allegory representing our yearning for a more peaceful, simpler time and then as a symbol of our own gullibility. In 1971, as a terrible ...

Known as the Tasaday and numbering just 27, the group of six families lived in caves, used stone tools and wore clothes fashioned from orchid leaves. A 32-page cover story by National Geographic ...

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The impact of the Tasaday story reflects the tension between truth and spectacle, ethical responsibilities of researchers and the seductive power of a good story A trowel (/ˈtraʊ.əl/), in the hands of ...

In 1971, as the U.S. military ravaged the Vietnam countryside with the most advanced technology available, a different set of images arose from Southeast Asia. Anthropologists and journalists had ...

In 1971, an official in the Marcos Government discovered a so-called "Stone Age" people untouched by modernity living in the southernmost island of the Philippines. The discovery drew worldwide ...

Of all the lies Ferdinand Marcos propagated, the most interesting one has got to be his Tasaday hoax. I say “interesting” because it is unlike most martial law stories of unconscionable torture and ...

WHEN Manuel Elizalde announced the discovery of a tribe in the Philippines uncorrupted by civilisation, he touched a sympathetic chord among the ordinary corrupted millions who sometimes allow ...