Reciprocal Mobilities : Indigeneity and Imperialism in an Eighteenth-Century Philippine Borderland / Mark Dizon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dizon, Mark, author.

Series:

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Travel--Philippines.

Indigenous peoples.

Anti-imperialist movements--Philippines--History--18th century.

Anti-imperialist movements.

Indigenous peoples--Philippines--Luzon--Social conditions--18th century.

Indigenous peoples--Philippines--Luzon--Government relations.

Borderlands--Philippines--Luzon--History.

Borderlands.

Philippines--Race relations--History--18th century.

Philippines.

Philippines--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

The University of North Carolina Press 2023

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

Summary:

Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago. Their travels are the counternarratives to one-dimensional stories of Spanish conquest of, and Indigenous resistance in, interior frontiers. Indigenous inhabitants on the island of Luzon constantly moved about-visiting allies and launching raids-and thus shaped history in the process. Their mobility allows us to glimpse their agency in colonial interactions in the early modern period. The landscape contains the traces of how they moved as well as how they channeled and impeded mobility in the borderlands. Mark Dizon views the colonial interactions in Philippine borderlands through the lens of reciprocal mobilities. Spanish mobilities of conquests and conversions had their counterpart in Indigenous visits and ambushes. Colonial encounters were not isolated individual events but rather a connected web of approaches, rebuffs, rapprochements, and dispersals. They took place not only in the exploration of remote forests and mountains but also in conjunction with Indigenous travels to colonial cities like Manila. Indigenous people of the borderlands were not immobile, timeless actors; they created history in their wake as they journeyed through the borderlands and beyond.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Mutual Visits

Chapter Two. Violent Exchanges

Chapter Three. Roads and Crossings

Chapter Four. Deadly Transitions

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890863638

9781469676463

146967646X