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    Fray Juan de Plasencia wrote "Customs of the Tagalogs" in 1589 describing the political and social customs of the Tagalog people in the Philippines. It provides details on their barangay system with small groups led by a datu, their system of justice with public trials and punishments fitting the crime, and aspects of their social structure including marriage customs. The document presents a view of Tagalog society during early Spanish colonization and is an important primary source on indigenous Philippine culture and politics at that time.

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    Fray Juan de Plasencia wrote "Customs of the Tagalogs" in 1589 describing the political and social customs of the Tagalog people in the Philippines. It provides details on their barangay system with small groups led by a datu, their system of justice with public trials and punishments fitting the crime, and aspects of their social structure including marriage customs. The document presents a view of Tagalog society during early Spanish colonization and is an important primary source on indigenous Philippine culture and politics at that time.

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    CUSTOMS OF THE TAGALOGS

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    Fray Juan de Plasencia wrote "Customs of the Tagalogs" in 1589 describing the political and social customs of the Tagalog people in the Philippines. It provides details on their barangay system with small groups led by a datu, their system of justice with public trials and punishments fitting the crime, and aspects of their social structure including marriage customs. The document presents a view of Tagalog society during early Spanish colonization and is an important primary source on indigenous Philippine culture and politics at that time.

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    Customs of The Tagalogs

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    Fray Juan de Plasencia wrote "Customs of the Tagalogs" in 1589 describing the political and social customs of the Tagalog people in the Philippines. It provides details on their barangay system with small groups led by a datu, their system of justice with public trials and punishments fitting the crime, and aspects of their social structure including marriage customs. The document presents a view of Tagalog society during early Spanish colonization and is an important primary source on indigenous Philippine culture and politics at that time.

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    CUSTOMS OF THE TAGALOGS

    By: Fr. Juan de Plasencia(1589)

    Content and Contextual Analysis

    CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

    Author’s Background

     PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION


     EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
     ORIGINAL PICTURE/PORTRAIT

    Fray Juan was born to the illustrious family of the Portocarreros in Plasencia in the region of Extremadura, Spain in
    the early 15th century.

    His father, Don Pedro Portocarrero,was a captain opf a Spanish schooner, who died in Naples, Italy in 1574

    He was included in the list of missionaries bound for the Philippine Islands which was dispatched from the Casa de la
    Contratacion of Seville,dated May 21,1577.

    He was a member of the Frabnciscan Order who came together with the first batch of missionaries to the Philippines
    in 1578. He and a fellow Franciscan Fray Diego de Oropesa,were assigned to do a mission works in southern tagalog..

    He was acknowledfed as the founder of numerous towns in Luzon particularly in Quezon,Laguna,Rizal and Bulacan
    using the method of reduccion.

    As his biographies testify, his life was characterized by zeal, prayer and dedicated service

    Plasencia wrote the Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Esponala y Tagala which later became the first printed book in
    the Philippines in 1593

    After several dedicated years of hardwork, converting the natives, teaching catechisms and organizing towns and
    barangays, he finally succumbed to Sister Death. He passed away in Lilio (liliw), in the Province of Laguna in the year
    1590.

    HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE DOCUMENT

    During the 1st century of Spanish rule, the colonial government had difficulty in running local politics

    Hence, the friars eneded up performing administrative duties that the colonial officials should have been doing at
    the local level

    The friars who were assigned in mission territories were required periodically to inform their superiors of what was
    happening in their respective areas.

    The manuscript contains numerous information and observation of the political and socio-cultural history of the
    Tagalog region

    October 21,1589-completion date of the manuscript

    Nagcarlan, Laguna-place where the manuscript was finished

    CONTENT PRESENTATION

    POLITICAL ASPECT

    Barangay System

     Hundred houses,sometimes even less than thirty


     Headed by chieftain(datu/dato)
     Captain of wars
     People who committed any offense against them, or spoke but a word to their wives and children,were severely
    punished.
    Justice System

     Fair Judgement or trial is being practiced long before


     The trial is done in public
     The punishment are based on the degree of the committed crime/acts

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