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By William Henry Scott
Published by New Day Publishers, ©1984.
Willam Henry Scott is a lay missionary of the Episcopal Church who taught history in the Philippines for 30 years. In 1965 he enrolled as a doctoral candidate in the University of Santo Tomas, determined to learn the difference between fact and fiction in what had been written about the Philippines before the coming of the Spaniards. The results of his research were presented in a dissertation entitled, “A critical study of the prehispanic source materials for the study of Philippine history,” and successfully defended before a panel of eminent Filipino historians which included Teodoro Agoncillo, Horacio de la Costa, Marcelino Foronda, Nicholas Zafra, and Gregorio Zaide. Published by UST Press in 1968, it became the first edition of this book.
At the time, Scott’s findings were so startling the book was ignored by textbook writers and the National Historical Commission alike. None of the major scholarly journals in the country reviewed it, but the Journal of Asian Studies wrote: “If future authors of Filipino college history textbooks consult Scott’s book there will be more fact and less fancy in their books. Scott’s scholarly alchemy is devastating when he transmutes popular fact into actual myth or legend.”
After 15 more years of progress in Philippine archaeology and linguistics, Scott’s original findings still stand. No historian has contested his claims that the Beyer wave migration theory is accepted by no Filipino archaeologist, there is no evidence for Chinese settlements or Arab trade routes before the Spanish advent, the Maragtas is not a prehispanic document, but a book copyrighted in 1907, and the so-called “Code of Kalantiaw” is a delibarate fraud.
Description: 196 pages ; 22.7 x 15.2 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-971-10-02264
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