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14 Cards in this Set
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Oral literature of the precolonial Filipinos |
- bore the marks of the community |
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Language of daily life |
- the language of oral literature |
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Two ways by which the uniqueness of indigenous culture survived colonization |
- resistance to colonial rule - virtue of isolation from centers of colonial power |
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Resistance to colonial rule |
- This was how the Maranwas, the Maguindanaws, and the Taosugs of Mindanao and the Igorots, Ifugaos, Bontocs, and Kalingas of the Mountain Province were able to keep the integrity of their ethnic heritage. |
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Virtue of isolation from centers of colonial power |
- The Tagbanwas, Tagabilis, Mangyans, Bagobos, Manuvus, Bilaan, Bukidnons, and Isnegs could cling on to the traditional lifeways because of the inaccessibility of their settlements. |
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Riddles and Proverbs |
- simplest forms of oral literature |
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Talinghaga |
- Analogue, metaphor, or figure |
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Vocabulario de la lengua tagala |
- one of the rare Spanish sources that provide us with samples of early oral lore obtained direct from the people |
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Tanaga |
- a stanza form with a fixed number of lines (four), would seem to be a Hispanized descendant of the ambahan or a related poetic form. |
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Political and Religious life of the people |
- was based on tradition "preserved in songs they have memorized and which they learned as children, hearing them sung when folks rowed, worked and made merry and feasted and mourned their dead. In these barbaric songs were told the fabled genealogies and vain glorious deeds of their gods" |
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Function of myths, hero tales, fables and legends in the community |
- to explain natural phenomena, past events and contemporary beliefs in order to make the environment less fearsome by making it more comprehensible and, in more instances to make idle hours less tedious by filling them with humor and fantasy. |
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Ch'along |
- of the Ifugaw - an example of how rite when combined with plot could develop in time as full-pledged drama - part of a wedding rite, involving the propitiation of evil spirits who might bring harm upon the couple. |
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Folk epics |
- most significant pieces of oral literature that may safely be presumed to have originated in prehistoric times |
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Common features of the folk epics as described by Manuel |
- narratives of sustained length - based on oral tradition - revolving around supernatural evens or heroic deeds - in the form of verse - which is either chanted or sung - with a certain seriousness of purpose, embodying or validating the beliefs, customs ideals, or life values of the people |
