LESSON 2: Content and Contextual Analysis of Selected Primary Sources in Philippine History Flashcards
The historian’s primary tool of understanding and interpreting the past is the ___________
HISTORICAL SOURCES
ascertain historical facts.
HISTORICAL SOURCES
Two things needed in analyzing a Primary Sources
✔ The document itself.
✔ The era from which it comes.
6 C’s that guide to effectively analyze primary sources.
- Content
- Citation
- Communication
- Context
- Connections
- Conclusions
You must identify the main idea.
CONTENT
Identify the creator of the document and the time it is created.
CITATION
You must identify the biases of the author.
COMMUNICATION
You must identify the event in its environment during the document is created.
CONTEXT
Recognize the connection of the primary source to what you already know.
CONNECTIONS
You must determine the contributions of the primary source to our own understanding of history.
CONCLUSIONS
Is an essential factor to determine the historical importance of the text.
Context
ACCORDING TO Fr. Juan de Plasencia, this is who governed them and were captains in their wars, and
whom they obeyed and reverenced…
DATO
ACCORDING TO Fr. Juan de Plasencia tribal gathering is called in Tagalog
BARANGAY
ACCORDING TO Fr. Juan de Plasencia THREE CASTES
NOBLES
COMMONERS
SLAVES
ACCORDING TO Fr. Juan de Plasencia, these were the free-born whom they call maharlica.
NOBLES
ACCORDING TO Fr. Juan de Plasencia The commoners were called
ALIPING NAMAMAHAY
ACCORDING TO Fr. Juan de Plasencia They live in their own houses and are lords of their property and gold.
ALIPING NAMAMAHAY
ACCORDING TO Fr. Juan de Plasencia, The slaves are called
ALIPING SAGUIGUILID
According to Fr. Francisco Colin, There are three kinds and classes of people:
DATO
TIMAUAS
ORIPUN
TAGALOG’S ALIPING SAGUIGUILID =
VISAYAN’S HALON
Historical Importance of Text in Understanding Philippine History
✔ is an integral part of the past, and without it, memories, stories and characters have less meaning.
✔ It is all the details of the time and place in which a situation occurs.
gathering the natives and placed them in one community.
Reduccion
The new native settlement can be described in as much as how our present-day town or city is organized:
Reduccion
It can be located at the center of the surrounding settlement.
PLAZA COMPLEX
Municipality/ city hall
AYUNTAMIENTO
refers to the perspective of the author toward a particular person or issue that has been shaped over some
time due to his/her experiences, motives, beliefs, origin, age, gender, social status and ideology.
Point of view
