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Book Description
"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 --This text refers to the Hardcover
edition.
A good example of how to approach
Filipino culture, July 27, 1998
Reviewer: Tim
Harvey (rwi@teleport.com) (see more about me) from Portland,
Oregon, USA
I'm not an anthropologist or Bisayan, so I cannot comment with any authority on the
author's treatment of these topics. I am an amateur student of the Bisaya language and
Filipino culture, and I very much appreciated the author's effort to understand his
subjects and their culture through revelations embedded in their language. Literally every
page has examples of the language and the insight it help to provide in
understanding/clarifying the people and how they viewed their lives. The book raised an
obvious question - "how can a people be understood and described without making their
language central?"
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