Power and Resilience
| Autor: | Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Vito Hernandez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Frontiers of Colonialism University Press of Florida |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctvx06wxq.13 |
| Popis: | The old town (Pinagbayanan) of San Juan in Batangas, Philippines was established along the coast of Tayabas Bay in the 1840s during the late Spanish Colonial Period. Popular history recounts its relocation 7 km inland to its current location in 1890 because of seasonal flooding. Geoarchaeological landscape data from two stone houses and the old church complex are used alongside ethnohistorical accounts to explore this period further. Archival documents document the conflict between the priest and the residents in transferring the town. By integrating these data, this chapter explores the power of the church and resilience of the townspeople. This argument analyzes how two prominent groups responded to the same flooding event in the context of local resilience and resistance to Spanish demands. The results are tied to the larger context of Spanish colonial occupation of the Philippines. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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