Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island

by Jean-Paul Dumont

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"To read the book is to appreciate the highly contingent, provisional, oblique, open-ended way in which people try to make "sense" of another culture."--Resil B. Mojares, Philippine Graphic

"This book is an interestingly complex ethnography that approaches the self-critical dialectical ethnography called for two decades ago....It is a welcome contribution to postmodernist theory and to the ethnography of the Visayas."--Ronald Provencher,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226169553

ISBN13:9780226169552

Release Date:June 1992

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:246 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Asia Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Cultural Philippines Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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