READING IN THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY

1. ZOILO GALANG
Known as: One of the pioneering Filipino writers who worked with the English Language.

2. Santiago Albano Pilar

Known as: Chronicling Philippine art centered on the 19 th and 20th century in numerous
publication in both the Philippines and overseas

3. …
4. Teodoro Agoncillo
Known as: promoting a distinctly nationalist point of view of Filipino history.

5. Samuel K. Tan
Known as: Filipino historian, academic and author.

II.
1. COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
 Portrayed Filipino as a people bereft of an advanced culture and a respectable history
 Filipino culture continued even after Rizal’s death and the end of Spanish colonialism.
 The United State didn’t only use brute but also effected ingenious ways of pacification
such as the use of education.
 Was ingrained among Filipino that they perceived their past colonial past in 2 ways,
initially maltreated by “wicked Spain” but later rescued by “benerolent America”.
 Perception breathes new Life to the two part view of History, united state and an era
enlightenment during the American Colonial Administration.

2. PHILIPPINE HISTORIOGRAPHY AFTER WORLD WAR II

 The postcolonial period troubled a small group of professors and cultural workers who
were mostly alumni of the university of the Philippines.
 1950, Teodoro Agoncillo the first ever nationalist historiography in the country that he
highlighting the role of the Filipino reformists and revolutionaries from 1872.
 Renato Constantino whose published the work entitled “The miseducation of the
Filipino” became a staple reading for academics and activist beginning in the late 1960’s
 Zeus Salazar the first scholar of Philippine historiography in the last 30 years of the 20 th
century and he conceptualized “pantayong Pananaw”.
 Reynaldo Ileto who wrote about his “History from below”, by his work, he endeavored
to recognize the way of thinking of ordinary folks by using alternative historical source.
 Samuel Tan a prolific historian and best remembered for mainstreaming the role and
relevance of Filipino Muslims in the Country’s national History.

3. CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE HISTORIOGRAHY

  National histories today, deal with the political aspect of nation-building such as the
legacies of political leaders.
 Continues to breed Filipinos who are more familiar with stories about our colonial
history rather than stories of our precolonial past.
 Historical narratives focused in nation-building such as what the ilustrados fought in the
19th century or how local politician negotiated with their American counterparts to
obtain an independence law during the first half of the 20 th century.
 The women’s power show their roles as consequences of their connection to the men in
their lives. It was imperative to use gender-sensitive to avoid typecasting women as
dependent, emotional, less important, passive, submissive and weak.
 Tend to show partially toward lowland Christianized Filipinos at the expense of other
national cultural communities such as Muslim Filipinos and other indigenous people.

DIFFERENCE OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCE

PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCE

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 TESTIMONY OF NOT AN
 TIME AND PLACE BEING
EYEWITNESS.
DESCRIBE USING
 VOICE ONLY
DICTAPHONE.
 UNWITNESS
 TESTIMONY OF EYEWITNESS.
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