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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461202903321

Autore

Thomas Megan C (Megan Christine), <1970->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4701-5

0-8166-8014-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

305.8009599

Soggetti

Ethnology - Philippines

Ethnohistory - Philippines

Philippine literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Orientalism - Philippines - History

Electronic books.

Philippines Colonization

Philippines Historiography

Spain Foreign relations Philippines

Philippines Foreign relations Spain

Spain Colonies Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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 scholarly writing abou