CONTEXTUAL CONTENT ANALYSIS CONTRIBUTION TO RELEVANCE AUTHOR’S

THE PHILIPPINE PERSPECTIVE

HISTORY
Juan de Plasencia’s Plasencia’s account The Customs of the It can be inferred Several of
account was written is mainly descriptive Tagalogs enabled the that many of the Plasencia’s
with the motive of due to the fact that it exploration of the 16th century beliefs perspective on our

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providing the King was supposed to ancient lives of the and practices are still ancient practices

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with information illustrate the daily people living in present and and beliefs were
regarding the every- lives of the taga central Luzon. The observed today such somehow no

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day lives of the information provided as the belief in different to our own
Tagalogs. He had to in the text gave vivid mythical creatures point of views. There

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provide detailed imagery which and other were slight to very

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descriptions and allowed for further superstitions. little bias
engaging content in analysis of the Moreover, it affirms incorporated in

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order to please the practices of the that during the pre- writing the text due
King. ancient Tagalogs as Hispanic period, to the nature of
well as comparisons Filipinos already Plasencia as an

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with other accounts have a government expeditioner on a
of succeeding time as well as set of foreign land; he had

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period and beliefs and practices. to be open minded
significant events on Furthermore, the to new practices and
the Philippine

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Emma Helen Blair (Translator)

Emma Helen Blair (September 12, 1851 – September 25, 1911) was a United States historian, journalist and
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editor, whose most notable work was a monumental documentary history of the Philippines.
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 Emma Helen Blair was born on September 12, 1851, on Menasha, Wisconsin. Although born in Wisconsin, she
attended high school in Westfield, Massachusetts. In 1871, she returned to Wisconsin and enrolled in Ripon College,
where she graduated in 1874. After graduation she taught in public school for two years and then moved to
Milwaukee, where she worked as a journalist. In 1892, she began postgraduate work in history, economics and
sociology at Wisconsin State University. She later became a librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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In 1894, Blair resigned from the library staff and became assistant to Reuben Gold Thwaites. Thwaites was the

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translator of the 73-volume work Jesuit Relations (1896–1901). This massive work consisted of English translations of
the annual reports issued by the superior of the Jesuit missions in New France to the Jesuit overseer in France

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between the years 1632 and 1673. Blair participated in the editing and annotations. After her work on the Jesuit

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Relations, she assisted in the editing of the journal of Father Louis Hennepin and of the journals of the Lewis and
Clark expedition, still working with Thwaites.

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In 1903, she began work on the project she is most remembered for, the translation and editing of Philippine

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historical documents that were published in the 55-volume series The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (1903–09). Her
collaborator was James A. Robertson, later librarian at the Philippines Library in Manila. Most of the documents in this
enormous collection had not previously been translated into English. Volumes 15 and 16 consist of Antonio de

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Morga's History of the Philippine Islands from Their Discovery by Magellan in 1521 to the Beginning of the XVII
Century, an extremely valuable source on the early history of the islands.

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Her last work was the translation and editing of documents for The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi

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Valley and Region of the Great Lakes (2 vols., 1911–12). This work included Nicolas Perrot's Memoir: The Habits and

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Customs of the American Indians. Just days after receiving an advance copy of volume 1 from the bindery, Blair died
in Madison, Wisconsin on September 25, 1911.
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According to her obituary in the Madison Democrat, Miss Blair became by dint of native ability and years of
preparatory toil one of the most expert historical editors in the county. She had acquired a complete mastery of the
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French and Spanish languages. Her literary style was incisive, her historical judgment clear and accurate, and her
knowledge of the details of typography quite unusual. In recognition of these qualities Ripon College and the State
University honored her with degrees.
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Fray Juan de Plasencia (Author)

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 Juan de Plasencia (Spanish: ) was a Spanish friar of the Franciscan Order. He was among the first group of
Franciscan missionaries who arrived in the Islands on July 2, 1578.
He spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines, where he founded numerous towns in Luzon and
authored several religious and linguistic books, most notably the Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine), the first
book ever printed in the Philippines.

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Life in the Philippines
He is believed to have arrived to the Philippines in July 2, 1578, after a stopover in Mexico. As soon as he

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arrived, he joined forces with another missionary, Fray Diego de Oropesa, and they both started preaching around

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Laguna de Bay and Tayabas, Quezon, in Quezon Province, where he founded several towns.

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During the following years they are also credited with the foundation of a large number of towns in the
provinces of Bulacan, Laguna and Rizal, such as Tayabas, Caliraya, Lucban, Majayjay, Nagcarlan, Lilio (Liliw), Pila,

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Santa Cruz, Lumban, Pangil, Siniloan, Morong, Antipolo, Taytay, and Meycauayan.
As a friar, Juan de Plasencia lived up to his pledge, leading a lifestyle devoid of any luxury and in constant

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contact with the people he was trying to convert to Christianity. He was also known to be a defender of the native
population, looking after the poor, ill, or neglected, and standing up for their rights on numerous occasions.

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He was also very keen on creating primary schools, and requested official sanction for the creation of
educational centers where "Filipinos could not only learn Christian doctrine, but also reading and writing, and some

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arts and crafts, so they would become after, not only good Christians but also useful citizens", an initiative that was
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