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Fansler - Preface","Filipino Popular Tales presents folk stories collected in the Philippines between 1908 and 1914, edited with comparative notes to make the narratives convenient for reference. The preface explains that the tales are rendered in English because the editorial goal is literary rather than linguistic, reflecting variation across regions and languages in the original tellings. It also outlines the editor’s approach to preserving native tradition, naming narrators and locations, and distinguishing what is native versus derived through analysis in the accompanying notes.","The Project Gutenberg EBook of Filipino Popular Tales, by Dean S. Fansler  \nCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.  \nThis header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission.  \nPlease read the \"legal small print,\" and other information about theeBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.  \n**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**  \n**eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971**  \n*****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****  \nTitle: Filipino Popular Tales  \nAuthor: Dean S. Fansler  \nRelease Date: June, 2005 [EBook \\#8299]  \n[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule][This file was first posted on July 4, 2003]  \nEdition: 10  \nLanguage: English  \nCharacter set encoding: ISO-Latin-1  \n*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FILIPINO POPULAR TALES ***  \nProduced by Jeroen Hellingman  \nFilipino Popular Tales  \nCollected and Edited with Comparative Notes  \nBy  \nDean S. Fansler,  \n1921  \nPreface.  \nThe folk-tales in this volume, which were collected in the Philippines during the years from 1908 to 1914, have not appeared in print before. They are given to the public now in the hope that they will beno mean or uninteresting addition to the volumes of Oriental M rchen already in existence. The Philippine archipelago, from the very nature of its geographical position and its political history, cannot but be a significant field to the student of popular stories. Lying as it does at the very doors of China and Japan, connected as it is ethnically with the Malayan and Indian civilizations, Occidentalized as it has been for three centuries and more, it stands at the junction of East and West. It is therefore from this point of view that these tales have been put into a form convenient for reference. Their importance consists in their relationship to the body of world fiction.  \nThe language in which these stories are presented is the language in which they were collected and written down,--English. Perhaps no apology is required for not printing the vernacular herewith; nevertheless an explanation might be made. In the first place, the object in recording these tales has been a literary one, not a linguistic one. 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