Manuel Blanco’s El Indio and the History of a Rumor

• Main Author: Mojares, Resil B.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: colonial/anticolonial discourse; jokes; public opinion; rumor; science
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss23/16; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1589/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n23_2014_5D_204.1_KolumKritika_Mojares.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The paper explores the social meanings that can be elicited from tracking the history of a rumor. It takes as its example the nineteenth-century apocryphal story of an Augustinian friar who labored for years on a treatise on the character of the Philippine native (indio) only to leave behind, upon h...