A01=Mark Dizon
Author_Mark Dizon
Category=JPB
Category=NHF
colonial encounters in a Southeast Asian frontier
colonial forts in early modern warfare
construction of a borderland road
conversion to Christianity in the Philippines
demography and epidemic diseases in Spanish colonial Philippines
early modern borderland warfare and violence
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
headhunting raids among indigenous communities
indigenous peoples of central and northern Luzon
inspection tours of the Hispanic monarchy
malaria and mosquitoes in frontier zones
mobilities and frictions in a Philippine borderland
networks of coastal and interior polities in Southeast Asia
overland travel and communication in borderlands
reciprocal mobilities in Luzon
Spanish empire in late-seventeenth and eighteenth-century Asia
Product details
- ISBN 9781469676432
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
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.
Mark Dizon is assistant professor of history at Ateneo de Manila University.
