{"title":"13. The Poetics of Praise and the Demands of Confession in the Early Spanish Philippines","authors":"V. Rafael","doi":"10.1515/9789048552276-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552276-016","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter combines two very different but intimately related texts. On the one hand, it reproduces three dalits, devotional poems by Tagalog natives praising the work of Catholic missionaries. On the other, it provides a questionnaire from an eighteenth-century confessional manual used by missionaries to administer the sacrament of Penance. Vicente L. Rafael argues that each text embodies a different attitude toward the written word in the religious life of the colonial Philippines. For the Tagalog authors of the dalits, the book becomes a magical talisman of sorts. For the missionaries, it provides the tactics of an intimate disciplinary strategy meant to alter the behavior of Filipino natives.","PeriodicalId":165890,"journal":{"name":"The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116711196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"8. The Will of an Indian Oriental and her Chinos in Peru (1644)","authors":"Leo J. Garofalo","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.13","url":null,"abstract":"In her 1644 will, a widow named Leonor Alvarez made arrangements for her\u0000 funeral and granted freedom to four people whom she had held as slaves.\u0000 Alvarez identified herself as the “Peruvian daughter of gentile parents\u0000 from Oriental India.” She had been married to one Hernando Gutierrez,\u0000 of Chinese origin, and the people she freed were from Africa and Asia.\u0000 Leo Garofalo places this document in the context of Lima’s complex racial\u0000 demography, which included significant numbers of people from East,\u0000 Southeast, and South Asia, both free and enslaved. The will provides a\u0000 glimpse into the life or Asian men and women who had migrated either\u0000 freely or by force to South America.","PeriodicalId":165890,"journal":{"name":"The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115980135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"9. Francisco de Combés’s History of Mindanao and Jolo (1667)","authors":"Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.14","url":null,"abstract":"In this excerpt from his history of the southern Philippines and of the\u0000 efforts of the Jesuits to convert its inhabitants, Francisco de Combés\u0000 (1620–1665) paints a sensationalist image of the religious life of Mindanao,\u0000 emphasizing the supposed atheism of the common people and the practice\u0000 of sorcery by their Muslim rulers. The heroic Jesuits operating out of the\u0000 Spanish settlement of Zamboanga struggle with the volatile politics of\u0000 the Islamicate south in their heroic efforts to bring Christianity to people\u0000 that they misrecognize as “moors.” Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez places\u0000 the text in the context of Spain’s troubled relationship with Mindanao.","PeriodicalId":165890,"journal":{"name":"The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130696262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"5. Manila’s Sangleys and a Chinese Wedding (1625)","authors":"Miguel A. Martínez","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.10","url":null,"abstract":"This excerpt from Diego de Rueda y Mendoza’s True Account of the Funeral\u0000 Exequies that the Illustrious City of Manila Celebrated to the Death of His\u0000 Majesty Philip III (1625) provides an eye-witness account of a Catholic\u0000 Chinese wedding celebrated in Manila during the early seventeenth\u0000 century. It provides tantalizing glimpses of transculturation among\u0000 Manila’s small Spanish ruling class, as well as insights into the culture\u0000 of the sangleys, the Chinese residents whose numbers exceeded those\u0000 of the Spanish by several orders of magnitude. Miguel Martínez places\u0000 Rueda’s account of the wedding within the context of the broader pseudoethnographic\u0000 work carried out by the True Account, as well as the early\u0000 history of Manila’s sangleys.","PeriodicalId":165890,"journal":{"name":"The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125809244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"15. A Prohibition on Digging Up the Bones of the Dead (1813)","authors":"Ino Manalo","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.20","url":null,"abstract":"In 1813, the Bishop of Cebu, Joaquín Encabo de la Virgen de Sopetrán, issued an edict prohibiting the exhumation of the dead, written primarily in the local language of Cebuano Visayan. This document from the archives of the Roman Catholic parish of Patrocinio de Maria in Boljoon, a town in the Philippine province of Cebu, suggests that inhabitants of the diocese were digging up the bones of the dead in order to hold rituals for a secondary burial along traditional, non-Christian lines. Ino Manalo discusses the edict in light of the emphasis placed by Spanish colonialism on urbanism and literacy, and outlines the ways in which it provides evidence of the persistence of traditional beliefs and practices centuries after the introduction of Christianity to the Visayas.","PeriodicalId":165890,"journal":{"name":"The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129370077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"4. A Royal Decree of Philip III Regulating Trade between the Philippines and New Spain (1604)","authors":"Natalie Cobo, Tatiana Seijas","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.9","url":null,"abstract":"This decree represents one of the earliest attempts made by the Spanish\u0000 crown to regulate the transpacific trade between Acapulco and Manila.\u0000 In reaction to complaints that transpacific commerce was harmful to\u0000 Spain and its Atlantic possessions, the crown attempted to regulate\u0000 such matters as the number and tonnage of the galleons, the penalties\u0000 for transporting contraband, the salary of galleon commanders, the\u0000 manner in which accounts would be kept, procedures for inspecting\u0000 ships and cargo, and much else. Natalie Cobo and Tatiana Seijas place\u0000 the document in the context of early modern Spanish mercantilism,\u0000 intra-imperial commercial rivalries, and the reactive patterns of imperial\u0000 governance.","PeriodicalId":165890,"journal":{"name":"The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815","volume":"28 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125363751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"6. Don Luis Castilla Offers to Sell Land in Manila (1629)","authors":"R. T. Jose","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4hm.11","url":null,"abstract":"A series of documents from the Archives of the University of Santo Tomás\u0000 in Manila tell of the attempt by one Luis Castilla, an indigenous Tagalog\u0000 speaker and member of the local aristocracy or “principalía,” to sell various\u0000 parcels of land. As one of the oldest surviving examples of legal process in the\u0000 Philippines, the Castilla dossier speaks of the rapid implantation of Spanish\u0000 legal culture in Luzon, and of its adaptation to colonial conditions. The\u0000 documents combine Spanish with Romanized Tagalog and Tagalog written\u0000 in the native baybayin script, as well as some Chinese characters. They also\u0000 help us appreciate how the early principalía managed to acquire land in the\u0000 face of opposition from powerful forces in the Church. Regalado Trota José\u0000 provides context and comments on the material aspects of the manuscripts.","PeriodicalId":165890,"journal":{"name":"The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124554302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}