Clash of Spirits : : The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island / / Filomeno V. Aguilar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Aguilar, Filomeno V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

This text illuminates the oral traditions of the Philippines and the convergence of capitalism and the indigenous spirit world. The author examines the social relations, cultural meanings and political struggles surrounding the rise of sugar haciendas on Negros during the late Spanish colonial perio...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I. Colonial Enchantments, Indigenous Contests
• 1. A Clash of Spirits
• 2. Cockfights and Engkantos
• 3. Elusive Peasant, Weak State
• Part II. The World of Negros Sugar after 1855
• 4. The Formation of a Landed Hacendero Class in Negros
• 5. “Capitalists Begging for Laborers”
• 6. Toward Mestizo Power
• 7. The American Colonial State
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author