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020			_a9715061990
040			_cHuman Rights Violations Victims' Memorial Commission
050			_aDS 688
100			_aFrancisco Ignacio Alcina _d1610-1674. _eauthor
245			_aHistory of the Bisayan people in the Philippine Islands = Historia de las Islas e Indios de Bisayas - 1668 : _bevangelization and culture at the contact period / _cFrancisco Ignacio Alcina ; translated, edited and annotated by Cantius J Kobak and Lucio Gutiérrez.
260			_aManila : _bUniversity of Santo Tomas Publishing House, _c2002
300			_axxxvii, 714 pages : _c26 cm.
490			_3Part One, Book 1 (Volume 1)
500			_aIncludes indexes. ; Parallel text in Spanish and English.
520			_aIn his Preface, Alcina writes: “…I began putting down on paper—for a span of more than thirty-four years during which I have dealt with, lived in and visited the greater part of the Bisayan Islands—communicating a great deal with the natives and inhabitants, about whom I am writing here and from whom I have received not a little of this information. In order to aid my memory, I kept jotting down and retaining all this with the aid of a more than an average knowledge of their language (which is the key that best opens all secrets) … taking advantage of some spare time and motivated by the opportunity of being away for some time from the ministerial tasks, I began to rewrite in an orderly manner what I had a rough draft. Therefore, from the labyrinth of loose and disorderly papers, which were like a ball of yarn, I began unraveling the threads. I succeeded (like the Deadfalls) in pulling apart and untangling that ball and thereby preparing a neat copy within a space of some nine or ten months. For so many years, I had all that in heap or a rough draft.”
650			_aCatholic Church -- Philippines -- Visayan Islands -- History.
650			_aEthnology -- Philippines -- Samar.
650			_aEthnology -- Philippines -- Leyte.
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