Agrarian Relations and the Friar Lands

Agrarian Relations and the Friar Lands Cuevas, Marichu
Enriquez, Edielyn
Ingan, Jose Lorenzo
Dec 1, 2011 land preconquest colonial period chinese mestizos Datu -Protector of the Barangay / Father

-Is the sole authority of the Barangay

-Has control over surplus resources

-Traded

-Owns the largest patch of land Society Society -Barangay
-Personal possessions are important
-Abundant resources
-Debt as not caused by poverty but as
lacking of resources for certain occasions;
paid in double
-Not a "family-based" community -Did not feel oppressed; In serving the Datu, they were serving themselves

-Gave “tributes” to the Datu from their own produce (buwis) People Friars -Owned lands donated to them by Spaniards and the native elites

-Replaced the role of Datu and babaylan

-Kept surplus produce People -Belief in suwerte, malas, kapalaran and sugal

-Excessive gambling that led to their peasantry

-Indios opted to work on monastic estates for pride and privilege Chinese Mestizos -Traders

-Leased farm lands from monastic estates

-Shared tenancy with indios

-Used sanglang-bili or pacto de retroventa to acquire more land -Related to the indios as if equal but, in reality, they were at a higher financial situation

-Did not cultivate the farm but has capital for production People (Indios) -Kasama of mestizos in cultivating the land
-Pawned his land for money for cockfighting and gambling
-Continued to loan from Mestizos (perpetual indebtedness)
-Chose to work with mestizos to "enjoy the benefits of unfolding era" ascendance of Society -Fear and reverence towards the Datu have diminished

-Natives were Catholicized

-Indios became peasants

-Law on debts: no more than 5pesos

-Indios' liberation from tradition Friar Estates -Friars imposed too high rents for the tenants

-They were exempted from government taxes

-They were still collecting tributes from the laborers Among these three periods, we have seen how land has been a MAJOR PLAYER on how Philippine societies run-
how it affects the relationship of each group with each other
(e.g friar-indio, mestizo-indio,datu-natives)
and
how the distribution of these lands reflects the shifting
of power and wealth among the people.
-Kasamahan system

-Agsa Tenants Land