The Making of a Myth: John Leddy Phelan and the Hispanization of Land Tenure in the Philippines 6
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; Ateneo de Manila University 46Edition: Description: Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Landholding -- Colonialism -- Pre- Hispanic -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | LOC classification: | | 2Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ABSTRACT : For close to fifty years, the accepted wisdom on land tenure in the colonial Philippines derives from a book written by John Leddy Phelan. Phelan claims that the Spanish regime radically transformed the nature of land tenure in the archipelago by substituting the European concept of private ownershipfor the pre-Hispanic arrangement, which emphasized communal ownership. He tells us further that one result of the change was a concentration of land in the hands of an indigenous elite. Phelan's thesis has been widely adopted by historians of the Philippines. This article argues that much of Phelan's formulation is myth. 56
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