![]() Scott was an anthropologist and leading historian on the Cordilleras and Pre-Hispanic Philippines. ![]() ![]() It has been 16 years since the unfortunate demise of Dr. Scott ventured to answer the question: What did the Spaniards actually say about the Filipino people when they first met them? Using a wide array of sources and a method conducive to gleaning information on native inhabitants, Scott lays out an answer to the question in a manner that reveals an intensely committed scholarship and an unfailing affection for his adopted people. ![]() By bringing to the fore the native inhabitants of the archipelago who in colonial documents and sadly even in historical writing are relegated to the background, Scott fills an egregious lack. William Henry Scott, distinguished historian and eminent scholar, puts us in considerable debt with the publication of Barangay. Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society Barangay by William Henry Scott (1921-1993) ![]()
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