Visayan Vignettes Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island

"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 StudiesDumont, Jean-Paul is the author of 'Visayan Vignettes Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island' with ISBN 9780226169545 and ISBN 0226169545.