Members:
Castro, Cary
Delos Angeles, Ced
Jacinto, Vance
Pineda, Edrick Rafael
INTRODUCTION: THE
SOCIAL HISTORY OF
AN ARCHIPELAGO
ANTHROPOLOGY
American historian John Larkin began
using archival sources to study
Kapampangan provincial history and,
through several influential journal
articles, urged scholars to undertake
parallel local studies as a means of
moving beyond the Manila-centric vision
of Philippine national history.
Regional historians initiated
separated studies that constitute, in
sum, a comprehensive survey of
social change across the archipelago
from the late 18th to mid-20th
century.
Immanuel Wallerstein has offered more
refined model of the 16th century world
system. He sees northern Europe,
England and Holland as the “core” of a
world trade system supported by “semi-
peripheral” areas like Italy and
“peripheral regions like Latin America.
The Filipinos’ understanding of the
social history of the Philippines
developed much slowly than the
countries who colonized us. The
Filipinos’ also lacked a strong tradition
of colonial scholarship.
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PSYCHOLOGY
He argues that the history of the
provinces would have been written
before the national history could be
complete since the Philippines was
overwhelmingly rural.
Instead of accepting the scholarly
legacy of Philippine studies, they used
the rich resources of the Manila
archives and local repositories to
weave a new fabric for Philippine
social history.
He argues that there was a marked
tendency for slave systems to develop in
the Latin American “periphery”, tenanted
agriculture in the Italian “semi-periphery”,
and wage labour in the English “core”.
Since we are focused on wars the
Americans initiated the study of regional
Philippine History and neither the
Americans nor the Spanish government
provide sufficient support for the
development of Philippine studies.