Colonial Images of the Subano Nation | Wendell Glenn P. Cagape, PhD | Non-fiction

Description

The Subanen Indigenous communities in the contemporary Zamboanga Peninsula emanated from the rich colonial history, of their engagement with the Jesuits who helped them established themselves in the rancheria (community), teach them with the ways of the Spaniards and most importantly, convert them to Christianity as a colonial project. The conversion of the Subanen to Catholicism courtesy of the Jesuits which started in 1607 in an area near Dapitan has altered the contemporary, postcolonial societies of the Subanen in Mindanao.

There were resistance and cooperation that the conversion to the colonial cross brought to the Subanen in their Subano Nation and this book echoes that underrepresented, undocumented and unwritten scholarship in order for scholars, researchers and policymakers, Subanen and non-Subanen alike may wished to navigate.

Colonial Images of the Subano Nation speaks of the images taken of the Subanen in their Subano Nation and how colonial maps drawn by the colonialists without their participation has provided a glimpse into what really were the colonial encounters of the Subanen with the Moros and the Spaniards as well as the Jesuits meant to its rich cultural heritage, their traditions and their nationhood.