Abstract
This essay opens up the problematic of state intention versus local reception through an analysis of United States colonial rule in the Philippines. Specifically, I examine how the Filipino political elite received the project of democratic tutelage, c. 1899–1910s. I argue that the Filipino elite received the Americans’ project through a particular tactic, one which is analytically irreducible to “resistance.” By this tactic, which I call “domestication,” the elite refashioned the Americans’ imposed discourses and institutions in accordance with their preexisting political culture. The elites thereby reproduced the very cultural field which the Americans tried to uproot, effectively thwarting the project from the outset.
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