PANTAYONG PANANAW
Dr. Zeus Salazar
 A history professor from the history department of UP Diliman
 Father of Panatayong Pananaw
PANTAYONG PANANAW
 A response to the westernized perspective of the study of
Philippine History and Historiography
 Introduce a communication based theoretical innovation on the
study of Philippine Historiography
 Most theoretically advanced and productive in terms of
research outputs
HELP TO MAKE THE MODERN VIEW OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
 Normative speaking context within which scholars in the
movement seek to help forge a “national discourse on
civilization”
 Contribute to the flourishing of a talastasang bayan
 Create the venue whereby the nation can share in one
encompassing discourse one that would lend a sense of
kabuuan or “totality”
 Help to share understanding of the nation’s history that can
give force and direction to a collective vision of the future
PANTAYONG PANANAW
 A for us perspective
 Emphasizes that the cultural notion is not only the subject and
goal of discourse but it is also the source of it
 Tayo – we speak among ourselves
 Kami – we speak to others
 Introduce the closed circuit of interaction a context where
discourse is carried on by among Filipino without the inclusion
or interference of outside participants or dominant perspective
who are unwelcoming to Filipino interest
FILIPINO HISTORY FROM THE LENS OF THE PANTAYONG
PANANAW
 Believed that prior to the coming of the Spaniards there was
no unified Pantayong Pananaw among the ethnolinguistic
groups through out the Philippines
 The creation of Philippines as a political entity was created
through the efforts of the Christianized elites (Ladinos)
 Ladino help to indigenize and translate Spanish work into
native language
 Ladino serves as cultural mediator
 New type of Ladino continue to discourse in English and use
foreign constructs in their researches and studies about the
Philippines and Philippine society
 Pantayong pananaw seeks to bridge the division of society
between the elite class, intellectuals and technocrats and the
majority of the Filipino masses who still silent and voiceless
because their main form of discourse is limited to the use of
the indigenous language
 Narrow the cultural the gap between the Great cultural divide
by constructing a totality or national consensus or pagbubuo to
produce a “shared framework for differently making sense of
the past”