TY - JOUR
T1 - Pamitinan and Tapusi
T2 - Using the Carpio legend to reconstruct lower-class consciousness in the late Spanish Philippines
AU - Scalice, Joseph
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Reynaldo Ileto, in his classic Pasyon and Revolution, sought the categories of perception of the Filipino ‘masses’ that guided their participation in the Philippine Revolution. Among the sources he examined was the Carpio legend, which he unfortunately subsumed to the separate, elite Carpio awit (Tagalog poem). Through a detailed examination of the legend's historical and geographical context, with its invocation of two locations, Pamitinan and Tapusi, I arrive at a different understanding of lower-class consciousness than Ileto. Rather than a counter-rational expression of peasant millenarianism, the legend of Bernardo Carpio was a ‘hidden transcript’ celebrating the history of social banditry in the region.
AB - Reynaldo Ileto, in his classic Pasyon and Revolution, sought the categories of perception of the Filipino ‘masses’ that guided their participation in the Philippine Revolution. Among the sources he examined was the Carpio legend, which he unfortunately subsumed to the separate, elite Carpio awit (Tagalog poem). Through a detailed examination of the legend's historical and geographical context, with its invocation of two locations, Pamitinan and Tapusi, I arrive at a different understanding of lower-class consciousness than Ileto. Rather than a counter-rational expression of peasant millenarianism, the legend of Bernardo Carpio was a ‘hidden transcript’ celebrating the history of social banditry in the region.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046553628&origin=inward
U2 - 10.1017/S0022463418000218
DO - 10.1017/S0022463418000218
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0022-4634
VL - 49
SP - 250
EP - 276
JO - Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
JF - Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
IS - 2
ER -