Dissertation Information for Damon Lawrence Woods NAME: - Damon Lawrence Woods
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1995)
ADVISORS: - D. R. SarDesai
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - James Lockhart - Paul Smith
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: Tomas Pinpin and "Librong pagaaralan nang manga Tagalog nang uicang Castila": Tagalog literacy and survival in early Spanish Philippines
Abstract: Within the context of Spanish printing and literacy of the local population, Tomas Pinpin, a Tagalog, wrote Librong pagaaralan nang manga Tagalog nang uicang Castila (A book from which Tagalogs can learn the Castilian language). Consisting of a series of lessons to teach Tagalogs Spanish, its professed intention was to enable Tagalogs to participate in the rite of confession with a non-Tagalog-speaking friar.
Viewing the books coming from the presses controlled by the friars as a response to the reality of the literacy of the local population in the indigenous writing system, baybayin, this dissertation examines the double context of Spanish printing and Tagalog literacy. The Dominican press at Abucay printed Pinpin's work in 1610. He and his book remained the exceptions for the next two hundred years; no other works written by an indio were printed until the nineteenth century.
Under the guise of enabling Tagalogs to confess in Spanish, Pinpin sought to teach them material essential to surviving in the Spanish-controlled marketplace. This material included various aspects of the Spanish use of numerals, including writing them, the differences between the currency, measurement, and weight systems of the Tagalogs and the Spaniards. He included a confessionary, not his own work but given to him by a priest, so strengthen his claim to religious intentions.
This dissertation examines each chapter and lesson of Pinpin's book and seeks to determine Pinpin's place in the early Spanish Philippines. Included in chapter five is an examination of Pinpin's sense of identity and Hispanization as a force in his world.
The final goal of this dissertation is to examine the world of the indigenous population from a source written by a member of that population and in their language. It attempts to begin to present a clearer picture of those who have been largely ignored in the writing of the history of that time and place.
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