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Every place in the world has its own culture. The culture they have practice until they grown up. Culture has definite meaning one of this states that culture is a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group.

In the film “mumbaki” is about an Ifugao religious specialist meaning "sayer of prayers". The story also focuses the relation of groups live in Ifugao where they have their own “datu” their leader yet, these groups shares the same beliefs and under the same tribe. And also it covers the adaptation new way of curing illness of people but it will disobey their belief where they believe that their “baki” or gods may punish them in any curse. This story begins with the conflict between the unsettled marriage of an Ifugao chieftain daughter named Dolores from Alimit tribe and son of an Ifugao chieftain named Joseph from Lidum tribe. Where Joseph move to Baguio to study high school and got and scholarship and pursue his college and graduated as Medical in Manila and back to Ifugao when he knew he death of his father. And get more worst when the father of Joseph died, when he had an argument to his conflict tribe. They argued only about the boundaries of there territory, where who should own the old tree between the two tribe each them has explanations that ends up the leader of Lidum tribes death and these start of the beginning of the war for revenge and justice. The Lidum tribe believes that once they cannot have the justice of death of their leader they will suffer like experiencing different illness and worse that may cause to death of other people too. And all the tribe in Ifugao does not believe the medicine that given to them by their doctor, they believe that only their “mumbaki” can help and save them with help of their “baki” because he/ she is the one send by “baki” to save them. And the epidemic disease experiencing by the tribes of Ifugao become

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