THE FERNÃO DE MAGALHÃES EXPEDITION IN THE PHILIPPINES. A GLOBALIZING EVENT全球大事：麥哲倫考探菲律賓
The article proposes a re-reading of the Philippine episode of Fernão de Magalhães's expedition (1521) as a "globalization event" of a historical and cartographic nature, rather than merely as a political milestone of European colonization. The author argues that, although the navigation through the...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
January 2006
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40017/3778 |
| Summary: | The article proposes a re-reading of the Philippine episode of Fernão de Magalhães's expedition (1521) as a "globalization event" of a historical and cartographic nature, rather than merely as a political milestone of European colonization. The author argues that, although the navigation through the archipelago constituted a brief segment of the circumnavigation, its effects were decisive for the "connectivity" of the European and Asian worlds in physical, imaginary, and institutional terms: the arrival in the Philippines consolidated Spain's territorial claims in Asia and triggered competitive reconfigurations among the Iberian powers, mobilizing future colonial dynamics. Methodologically, the text conducts a historiographical and source analysis, situating Antonio Pigafetta's account (official chronicle) — consulted from the Blair and Robertson edition (1909) — as the basis for examining how the event was interpreted across different Philippine historiographical traditions. It concludes that, after 1946, national writing tended to reduce the centrality of European episodes, but recent changes have favored social and cultural approaches, making it possible to reassess the expedition as a founding moment of the islands' inclusion in European routes, records, and maps, with enduring repercussions on the Asian horizon. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |