Indigenous peoples’ understandings of climate change are often interpreted through an instrumental prism that privileges the ecologically adaptive nature of belief and practice. This paper explores the limits of this perspective by considering the environmental narratives of self-blame among households in the uplands of Palawan Island, the Philippines. In the south of the island, indigenous Pala’wan widely suggest that cyclical El Ni~ no Southern Oscillation driven variation in rainfall and related food insecurity is the product of a linear change in climatic patterns occurring over the past several decades. This perceived climate change is explained in reference to the popularity of incestuous relationships and a decline in ritualised executions. Through an ethnographic focus on the politics of climate knowledge, I argue that Pala’wan narratives of self-blame speak as much to ongoing struggles between indigenous people and the Philippine state over control of the forested uplands as it does to the grounded and empirical qualities of indigenous environmental knowledge.

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乱伦天气：菲律宾巴拉望岛土著气候变化知识的政治

土著人民对气候变化的理解通常通过一个工具棱镜来解释，这种棱镜优先考虑信仰和实践的生态适应性。本文通过考虑菲律宾巴拉望岛高地家庭自责的环境叙事，探讨了这种观点的局限性。在岛的南部，土著帕拉万广泛认为，周期性厄尔尼诺南方涛动导致降雨量和相关粮食不安全的变化是过去几十年气候模式线性变化的产物。这种感知到的气候变化可以通过乱伦关系的流行和仪式化处决的减少来解释。通过对气候知识政治的人种学关注，