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Juan de Plasencia was a 16th century Spanish Franciscan friar who wrote extensively about the Tagalog people of the Philippines. His most well known work, Customs of the Tagalogs, describes the social hierarchy, which included nobles, commoners, and slaves. It also details the customs around land ownership, marriage, and family. While an important early record, it reflects the biases and goals of a colonial writer seeking to describe native people for a Western audience. The work provides insight into Tagal

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James Philip Relleve

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