Orientalists, propagandists, and ilustrados : Filipino scholarship and the end of Spanish colonialism / Megan C. Thomas.

Author(s): Thomas, Megan C. (Megan Christine)

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Main Title
Orientalists, propagandists, and ilustrados : Filipino scholarship and the end of Spanish colonialism
Author(s)
Thomas, Megan C. (Megan Christine)
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Collation
ix, 277 p.
23 cm.
Summary
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.
ISBN
9780816671977
Dewey Class
305.8
Contents
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.
Language
English
Subject
Philippines -- Colonization.
Ethnology -- Philippines.
BRN
7922

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