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Nicolas, Samantha Ysabelle DP.

BS Entrep 1-2

The Historian’s Task in the Philippines

I. Introduction
A. Political or religious controversy is rarely a conducive context for an
introduction to serious history.
B. A study of Rizal’s writings led to a sharing of Rizal’s convictions on the
centrality of historical perspective for a real understanding of the problems of
the present.
C. Rizal’s consciousness of the need to know his people’s past
1. He insisted in the prologue to his edition of Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos
de las Islas Filipinas
2. Rizal hoped, would be able to “judge the present” so that all together
might dedicated themselves to studying the future.
D. Rizal was able to share with his people a sense of national identity.
E. Filipino of the Revolutionary generation found much of their literary and
nationalist inspiration in Rizal’s writings.
F. Every Filipino historian can share the basic goals Rizal thought capable of
achievement by history, while achievements cannot, without obstacles.

II. Recovering the Past


A. There was no Filipino history before 1872.
1. Rizal had shown that Spanish chronicles could be mined to get the
beneath the Hispanocentric outlook of these sources.
2. In the present times, with archival documentations available, the
Filipino society can be studied during the pre-Hispanic and Hispanic
periods.
B. Cracks in the Parchment Curtain
1. Work by William Henry Scott, in which he stated that a document
curtain of parchment conceals from modern view the activities and
thought of Filipinos and only reveals the activities of the Spaniards.
2. Many cracks in the parchment allowed him to glimpse Filipinos acting
in their own world.
C. Much can be learned about Filipino life and society by reading the lines of
Spanish documents
III. The Formative Century
A. Lack of researches regarding the Revolutionary and the American colonial
periods has been expressed.
1. Little has been done to explore much bigger growth of the nonfriar
haciendas.
a. Negros hacienderos’ quickly embracing American rule as
typical of the elite betrayal of the Revolution.
b. Many of the Iloilo elite soon went over to the Americans.
c. War continued in Panay in 1901, and the differences in
response was due to a different society.
B. A real history of the Revolution is still to be written.
1. Such a history will show different degrees and kinds of nationalist
response in different regions.
2. It will explore the variations in different socioeconomic classes of
regional societies and reasons for these differences.

IV. Method in History


A. History has been always written from a point of view.
1. Documents are not self-interpreting, therefore it needs a historian to
interpret.
2. The historian brings with him his viewpoint, biases and prejudices.
B. The valid use of critical historical method.
1. This method requires the historian to base himself on documentation
2. To draw evidence for his assertions of interpretations from the facts
found in documents.
C. Documents tell us much about the facts of people’s ways of thinking or
perceptions of reality.
1. Reynaldo Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution
D. The historian’s questions may shed new light on his people’s problems in the
present.

V. Nationalist History
A. A historian expressing his love for his country is considered nationalist in
writing history.
B. Various types of nationalist history have obstructed the national cause.
1. Pedro Paterno falsified documents and historical ideas about
everything good he found in 19th century Filipino society.
2. Jose Marco’s forgeries on pre-Hispanic Philippines.
a. Povedano and Pavon manuscripts
b. Code of Kalantiyaw
c. La Loba Negra
3. Reconstructing a Filipino past on false pretenses can do nothing to
build a sense of national identity.
C. We must investigate the real effects of the colonial experience to free
historiography from colonial myths.
1. This so called “nationalist” historiography allows only a one-
dimensional consideration of such real and complex issues.
2. The masses, whose story this kind of “people’s history” professes to
unfold, do not always think, feel and express themselves within this
constricting framework.
D. “People’s history” must see the Filipino people as primary agents in their
history, and not just as objects or oppressed by colonial policies.
1. It will refuse to treat people as an abstraction manipulated by
deterministic forces.
2. It will try to understand all aspects of the experience of all the Filipino
people.
E. Philippine history should be written from the point of view of the masses.
1. The goal of historical study and writing should be to support the
development of a society that provides fairness and participation to
every Filipino.
2. With history, it will make possible for a society to reform and improve
for a better future.

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