Social and Spiritual Kinship in Early-Eighteenth-Century Missions on the Caraballo Mountains

This article studies social relationships in the early-eighteenth-century missions on the Caraballo Mountains in Luzon. Actors in the region interpreted these relationships in terms of kinship in the wider indigenous sense of the word. Nonconsanguineous persons could become and stay kindred through...

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Main Author:	Dizon, Mark
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Published:	Archīum Ateneo 2011
Subjects:	kinship maguinoo conversion Catholic missions compadrazgo Anthropology Catholic Studies History of Religion Indigenous Studies Religion
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spelling	ph-ateneo-arc.history-faculty-pubs-10602022-01-10T03:40:51Z Social and Spiritual Kinship in Early-Eighteenth-Century Missions on the Caraballo Mountains Dizon, Mark This article studies social relationships in the early-eighteenth-century missions on the Caraballo Mountains in Luzon. Actors in the region interpreted these relationships in terms of kinship in the wider indigenous sense of the word. Nonconsanguineous persons could become and stay kindred through everyday practices in friendship and maguinoo, baptismal godparenthood and compadrazgo, Christian catechism, community leadership, and ancestor worship. Instead of resorting to cultural generalizations based on present-day anthropological studies or precolonial accounts, this article adopts an inductive approach and focuses on the social interactions themselves, especially on how the actors described how they lived and constructed these affective experiences on a day-to-day basis. 2011-09-01T07:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/60 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/450517 History Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo kinship maguinoo conversion Catholic missions compadrazgo Anthropology Catholic Studies History of Religion Indigenous Studies Religion
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description	This article studies social relationships in the early-eighteenth-century missions on the Caraballo Mountains in Luzon. Actors in the region interpreted these relationships in terms of kinship in the wider indigenous sense of the word. Nonconsanguineous persons could become and stay kindred through everyday practices in friendship and maguinoo, baptismal godparenthood and compadrazgo, Christian catechism, community leadership, and ancestor worship. Instead of resorting to cultural generalizations based on present-day anthropological studies or precolonial accounts, this article adopts an inductive approach and focuses on the social interactions themselves, especially on how the actors described how they lived and constructed these affective experiences on a day-to-day basis.
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title	Social and Spiritual Kinship in Early-Eighteenth-Century Missions on the Caraballo Mountains
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Social and Spiritual Kinship in Early-Eighteenth-Century Missions on the Caraballo Mountains

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