巴塔克人是居住在菲律宾巴拉望岛中部山地的一个民族集团。现在大约有360人,本世纪以来,他们由于接触了并从属于低地菲律宾社会而承受了重压。巴塔克人是一个正在消亡的民族(本世纪30年代他们还有五六百人),许多传统文化习俗已经无可挽回地 The Batak is a national group living in the mountains of central Palawan in the Philippines. There are now about 360 people who have suffered from this century of contact with and belonging to the lowland Philippine society. Batak is a demise of the people (they still have five or six hundred people in the 1930s), many traditional cultural practices have irreversibly