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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, Journal of Asian StudiesJean-Paul Dumont is the author of 'Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island (Morality and Society)', published 1992 under ISBN 9780226169552 and ISBN 0226169553.
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