The Myth of the barangay and other silenced histories / Damon L. Woods

Second Printing, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword by Virgilio S. Almario -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Racial Exclusion in the Mendicant Orders: From Spain to the Philippines -- Chapter Two -- Baybayin Revisited -- Chapter Three -- The Literate Tagalog in Early Spanish Philippines -- Chapter Four -- The Spanish Printing Ministry in Early Spanish Philippines -- Chapter Five -- The Myth of the Barangay -- Chapter Six -- Counting and Marketing Time: From the Precolonial to the Contemporary Tagalog World -- Chapter Seven -- Out of the Silence: The Men of Naujan Speak -- Chapter Eight -- Maria Mutia Versus Bernadino Dimabasa: Divorce in Early Spanish Philippines -- Chapter Nine -- Writing Early Philippine History: The Growing Gulf -- Appendices -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

The book builds on Woods's contributions to the reconstruction of early Philippine history using native sources. Composed of nine chapters, it contains revised versions of previously published articles, including Woods's research on Tomas Pinpin's life and seminal work, Librong Pagaaralan nang mga Tagalog nang Uicang Castila (1610), which Woods edited and published, along with his dissertation, in 2011 to mark the four-hundredthyear anniversary of Pinpin's book.