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Introduction: The Social History of An Archipelago: Members
Introduction: The Social History of An Archipelago: Members
Introduction: The Social History of An Archipelago: Members
INTRODUCTION: THE
SOCIAL HISTORY OF
AN ARCHIPELAGO
ANTHROPOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY
American historian John Larkin began He argues that the history of the
using archival sources to study
Kapampangan provincial history and, provinces would have been written
through several influential journal before the national history could be
articles, urged scholars to undertake complete since the Philippines was
parallel local studies as a means of
moving beyond the Manila-centric vision overwhelmingly rural.
of Philippine national history.
Immanuel Wallerstein has offered more He argues that there was a marked
refined model of the 16th century world tendency for slave systems to develop in
system. He sees northern Europe, the Latin American “periphery”, tenanted
England and Holland as the “core” of a agriculture in the Italian “semi-periphery”,
world trade system supported by “semi- and wage labour in the English “core”.
peripheral” areas like Italy and
“peripheral regions like Latin America.