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IN the most extreme of cases, "Ignorance of history can lead to chaos and lawlessness," Dr. Luciano P.R. Santiago wrote 20 years ago in his article "Don Pasqual de Sta. Ana (1762-1827): Indio Hacendero." He was referring to the landownership conflicts in Angono in the late 1990s. Disputed parcels of land were not public land as claimed but formed part of Hacienda de Angono. The vast estate had been acquired by Don Pasqual de Sta. Ana in 1818.
This essay, which first saw print in the March 2002 issue of the Ateneo de Manila University's Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, is one of the 20 essays in Philippine Genealogy & Religious & Art History: The Luciano P. R. Santiago Reader, published by Vibal Foundation and USC Publishing House earlier this month.
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