Foreword--Message--Panel A: Visayan in the 16th Century--Chapter 1: On the Parity and the Act of Recognition between Magellan and Humabon in 1521--Chapter2: Hayahay: The Plunder and Breakdown of Bisayan Economy and Society at the Start of Spanish Colonization--Chapter 3: Liwan: The Colonial Curtailing of the Tattooing Practice of the Pintados in the Early Spanish Period--Panel B: Hispanic way of Life and Muslim Mindanao--Chapter 4: Examining the Foundations of a School Culture in Early Spanish Philippines, 1565-1768-- Chapter 5: Extant Architecture from the First 150 Years of the Dominicans in the Philippines (1587-ca. 1700)--Cahpter 6: Indigenous Landowners in the 17th Century Philippines--Chapter 7: Islamic Mission in the Philippines in the Early Modern Era--Contributors