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Aliping namamahay (translated as "Servant who is housed") refers to alipin that had their own houses, which was usually built on the property of their masters. They were also known as tuhay , mamahay , or tumaranpoc (Spanish spelling: tumaranpoque ) in Visayan, literally means "house dweller" or "villager."
The aliping namamahay who owned their own houses and served their masters by paying tribute or working on their fields were the commoners and serfs, while the aliping sa gigilid who lived in their masters' houses were the servants and slaves.
By the 17th century, Spanish dictionaries were now erroneously defining timawa as libres (freemen) and libertos (freedmen), and were equating them with plebeyos ("commoners") and tungan tawo (literally "people in-between", the middle class)—descriptions that used to refer to the serf and peasant class, the tuhay or mamahay (the Visayan ...
Alipin (dependent class), classified into aliping namamahay (serfs) and aliping ... Depiction of female commoners in the Philippine archipelago during the 16th ...
The aliping namamahay who owned their own houses and served their masters by paying tribute or working on their fields were the commoners and serfs, while the aliping sa gigilid who lived in their masters' houses were the servants and slaves.
In Visayas, the Visayans utilized a three-class social structure consisting of the oripun (commoners, serfs, and slaves), the timawa (warrior nobility), and at the top, the tumao (nobility). The tumao consisted of blood relatives of the datu (community leader) untainted by slavery, servitude, or witchcraft. [ 2 ]
Among the Tagalogs there were two kinds: the aliping-namamahay, and the aliping-saguiguilir. The aliping-namamahay lived in his own house, served his master in harvesting half of his crop, according to the agreement previously had and was bound to row for his master when the latter made a trip by water. He could dispose of his property and ...
A pre-colonial couple belonging to the datu or nobility as depicted in the Boxer Codex of the 16th century.. Datu is a title which denotes the rulers (variously described in historical accounts as chiefs, sovereign princes, and monarchs) of numerous Indigenous peoples throughout the Philippine archipelago. [1]