ISBN:
9780816671908
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (289 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados : Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism
DDC:
305.8009599
Keywords:
Geometry -- Data processing -- Congresses
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Graph theory -- Data processing -- Congresses
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Ethnohistory ; Philippines
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Ethnology ; Philippines
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Orientalism ; Philippines ; History
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Philippine literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism
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Philippines ; Colonization
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Philippines ; Historiography
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Spain ; Foreign relations ; Philippines
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
The writings of a small group of scholars known as the ilustrados are often credited for providing intellectual grounding for the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Megan C. Thomas shows that the ilustrados ’ anticolonial project of defining and constructing the “Filipino” involved Orientalist and racialist discourses that are usually ascribed to colonial projects, not anticolonial ones. According to Thomas, the work of the ilustrados uncovers the surprisingly blurry boundary between nationalist and colonialist thought. By any measure, there was an extraordinary flowering of scho
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Worldly Colonials: Ilustrado Thought and Historiography; 1. Locating Orientalism and the Anthropological Sciences: The Limits of Postcolonial Critiques; 2. The Uses of Ethnology: Thinking Filipino with "Race" and "Civilization"; 3. Practicing Folklore: Universal Science, Local Authenticity, and Political Critique; 4. Is "K" a Foreign Agent? Philology as Anticolonial Politics; 5. Lessons in History: The Decline of Spanish Rule, and Revolutionary Strategy; Conclusion: Politics and the Methods of Scholarly Disciplines; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E
Description / Table of Contents:
FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z;
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