Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island (Morality and Society (Paperback))

Dumont, Jean-Paul

ISBN 10: 0226169553 / ISBN 13: 9780226169552

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island (Morality and Society (Paperback))
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226169553
• ISBN 13: 9780226169552
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

"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

About the Author

Jean-Paul Dumont is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and author of several books in English and French, including The Headman and I and two collections of poetry.