Woods, Damon L.,

The myth of the barangay : and other silenced histories / Silenced histories Damon L. Woods ; with a foreword by Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature. - xx, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Racial exclusion in the Medicant Orders: from Spain to the Philippines -- 2. Baybayin revisited -- 3. The literate Tagalog in early Spanish Philippines -- 4. The Spanish printing mystery in early Spanish Philippines -- 5. The myth of Barangay -- 6. Counting and marking time: from the precolonial to the contemporary Tagalog world -- 7. Out of the silence: the men of Naujan speak -- 8. Maria Mutia versus Bernadino Dimabasa: divorce in early Spanish Philippines -- 9. Writing early Philippine history: the growing gulf.

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Tagalog language--History


Philippines--History--1521-1812.
Philippines--History--To 1521.
Philippines--Civilization.

DS674 / .W66 2017

499.211