Peasants in Pampanga

Magalangan, a Sumatran village, and Magelang, the name of an area, a district, and a capital of a residency in Java easily remind one in every of the towns of Magalang in Pampanga. Pora, the name of some islands in Sumatrabrings to mind the town Porac. Mindjalin the northeasternmost island of the Anambas group in Sumatrareminds one in all Minalin, another town here. The name of a fourth town and a mountain in Pampanga – Arayat- is comparable to the Javan word rayat, meaning “peasant.” The peasant villagers adapted to those changes as best as they might while at the identical time retaining their socially-determined norms, practices, and economic modes. This essay depicts the continuities in traditional peasant society within the midst of changes caused by external forces. Sampang, a word which, within the Philippines, has been traditionally considered as a specifically Pampangan surname, is additionally the name of a vicinity in Madura (near Java) and 4 villages in Java, in addition jointly of the Bato Islands nearby. [Note: Other entries here are: Sampang Koeli (a village), Sampang Lameh (a hill), Sampang Pendeui (a village), and Sampang Tiga (a forest), dead Java; and Sampang Toewan, a gold mine in Sumatra. The Pampangan mausang, meaning “suffering from asthma.” Could or not it's that asthma was associated within the minds of the traditional Pampangans with frequent physical closeness to the musang, even as present-day Pampangans often correlate the disease with the household cat.