Visayan Vignettes

Visayan Vignettes
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780226169552
ISBN-13 : 0226169553
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Book Synopsis Visayan Vignettes by : Jean-Paul Dumont

Download or read book Visayan Vignettes written by Jean-Paul Dumont and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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


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