Philippine society Flashcards
“En cada fraile tenia el rey en Filipinas un capitan general y un ejercito entero”
“In each friar in the Philippines, they had a captain and a whole army” Mexican Viceroy
Father of Philippine Journalism
He tried to marshal the nationalist sentiment of the enlightened Filipino ilustrados, or bourgeoisie, against Spanish imperialism.
Marcelo H. del Pilar
la soberania monacal
frailocracia
monastic supremacy
frarocracy
Even____________between the colonizers and the locals was (quite literally) centered around _________
assimilation, religion
The _______ and the __________were ordered to collect all the scattered Filipinos together
missionaries, encomenderos
w/ the convento/casa real/plaza complex as the focal point/center
reduccion (resettlement)
christian rites and rituals were used to attract the locals
Processions
Songs
Candle-lights
Clothing of Saints
Festivals Sinakulo (passion play)
Muslim conflict drama (moromoro)
By _______ there are _________ Christians in the Philippines
1892
6,158,250
one of Rizal’s closest confidants
he translated a chapter of the latter’s first book, Noli Me Tangere, into German and wrote the preface to Rizal’s second book, El filibusterismo, although he was against its publication as he believed that it would lead to Rizal’s death
Ferdinand Blumentritt
As for those unbaptized which he coined as “________________” and those of Muslim faith,___________, he claims that they cannot be under 500,000 nor exceed a million
“heathens”, mohammedans
what are the external changes for architecture
Construction of colonial churches and convents made of stone.
The building of private homes of cal y canto (lime and mortar)
water reservoirs (aljibes)
external changes for specimens
Ethnobotanic specimens like fruits, vegetables, and medicinal herbs
external changes in terms of clothing
kanggan and bahag (loincloth) were transformed into the barong tagalog or camisa chinoand trousers
baro and saya for women - mestizo dress
one of the internal changes that is related to literature
Cultural Exchange
Theocentric literature appeared as soon as the Spaniards settled in the form of:
Awit, Corrido, and Metrical romances (narrative poems)
General art was also propagated with Printmaking and Engraving being a few of what Filipinos were known for
one of the internal changes that is related to school
Education
Professors taught students: literature, chemistry, metaphysiscs, mathematics, biology, pharmacy and theology
Female education: music, the piano, painting, drawing, embroidery, artificial flower-making, dressmaking, hair-dressing, lacemaking laundry work, sewing
Though education was not at all accessible until the ________
educational decree of 1863
“The Church has long proved to be, on the whole, by much the most cheap and efficacious instrument of good government and ordereven the common
People learn reading by its aid, so much at least as to enable them to read their prayerbooks and other religious manuals. There are very few Indians who are unable to read,
and I have always observed that the Manila men serving on board ships and forming their crew have been much often able to subscribe their names to the ship’s articles than the British seamen on board the same vessels could do.”
General Literacy + Religious Indoctrination
- Blumentritt 1896
“Wingfield came across a Dominican missionary who apologized for his bad Spanish, on the ground that having lived continuously for eighteen years with the natives, speaking Visaya the whole time, he had almost forgotten his own tongue.”
Language exchange
- The friars of the philippines
“The early missionaries in the Philippines as those in Mexico were prone to regard the ancient writings equally with the objects used in such worship as was practiced by the native people as works of the evil one, they ruthlessly destroyed these signs of culture whenever and wherever found.”
- James Robertson
Name Changes
Filipinos had to adopt Hispanic names as decreed by
Governor Narciso Claverfa
