Ginhawa and the Interpretation of Colonialism

Roland Abinal Macawili

doi:10.57106/scientia.v13i1.178

Authors

Roland Abinal Macawili De La Salle University – Integrated School

https://doi.org/10.57106/scientia.v13i1.178

Keywords:

ginhawa, kaginhawaan, colonialism, tripartite view, historiography

Abstract

The majority of historians and teachers of history tend to believe that it was the Propaganda of the educated elite that led to the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Reynaldo Ileto already made a powerful critique on such perspective by analyzing the mentalité of the pobres y ignorantes, and showed that they indeed possessed a certain worldview that was far different from that of the Ilustrados of the Propaganda Movement. Ileto, however, remained within the limits of the Catholic ideology and its appropriation by the masses in the 19^th century. This paper aims to study ginhawa, a Filipino concept, as both a concept and an ideology. The paper argues that ginhawa was used by the natives in interpreting the workings of colonialism.

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