Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island

By Jean-Paul Dumont

Book Overview

"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, Journal of Asian Studies

• 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"