(P): Customs of Tagalog Flashcards
→ means tribal gathering
→ formed from the Filipino word balangay
Barangay
was what Malay settlers called the sailboats that brought them there, and referred to the village of family members typically onboard.
Balangay
→ highest class
→regarded as the leaders of barangays
also the decision-makers of the communities
→ decides on different problems and conflicts faced by the community (dictatorship vibes)
also recognized to be smart and mahusay in
Datu
→ came from indian sanskrit word
→ AKA free/noble people
→ did not pay tax or tribute to the dato
responsible for assisting the Datu in their day-to-day activities
→ trained fighters that can accompany their Datu in wars
Maharlicas
→ Commoners that are responsible for certain households as a helper
→ cannot be treated as commodities
→ serve the Datu and other mamamayan
can get married and have properties
→ their children can inherit and enjoy their property and lands
Aliping namamahay
→ do all low-jobs such as extensive labors
→ treated as commodities
→ lives in their master’s house
Aliping Saguiguilir
Intermarriage:
If maharlicas had children among their slaves, the children and their mothers became?
FREEEEE LIKE A BIRD
Intermarriage:
If one of them (Maharlicas) had children by the slave-woman of another, what would the slave-woman do?
give her master half of a gold tael
Intermarriage:
If a free woman had a children by a slave?
they were all free, provided he were not her husband
Intermarriage:
If a female alipin/slave and maharlika had children?
odd numbers become maharlika and the even numbers become alipins
Intermarriage:
If a male alipin/slave and maharlika had children?
odd numbers become slaves and so on
Intermarriage:
If an alipin/slave and maharlika had onlye a child?
the child becomes half free and half slave
Intermarriage:
What if one married a woman of another village
the children were afterwards divided equally between the two barangays
Economy:
What can be used as a payment?
Gold tiles
Inheritances:
How are inheritance of legitimate children of father and mother passed?
Inherited equally unless the father showed slight partiality by such gifts as two or three gold taels, or perhaps a jewel.
Inheritances:
Tor F
In all cases, legitimate children gets inheritance equally
F (unless the father showed slight partiality by such gifts as two or three gold taels, or perhaps a jewel)
Inheritances:
If one had children by two or more legitimate wives?
each child received the inheritance and dowry of his mother with its increase, and that share of his father’s estate which fell to him out of the whole
Inheritances:
If a man had a child by one of his slaves, as well as legitimate children?
The child with slave had no share in the inheritance;
but the legitimate children were bount to free the mother and give him something—a tael or a slave, if the father were a chief
Inheritances:
If he had some sons by a free unmarried woman, to whom a dowry was given but who was not considered as a real wife?
classed as natural children; they inherited it all IF there were no children by the legitimate wife.
Inheritances:
If maharlica’s/datu had some sons by a free unmarried woman, to whom a dowry was given but who was not considered as a real wife, natural children (children by free unmarried woman) inherit it all unless what?
Unless they had children by the legitimate wife.
Inheritances:
What if there were no legitimate or natural child?
The inheritance went only to the father or grandparents, brothers or nearest relatives of the deceased
Inheritances:
How do adopted children get inheritance?
inherit double of what was paid for their adoption
Dowries and Divorce:
How are dowries given in precolonial era?
paid by the husband to the female’s family before they marry their desired wife
Dowries and Divorce:
Who enjoys the dowries given?
The parents of the female
