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

by Jean-Paul Dumont

"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

246 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1992

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

As an ethnography I enjoyed this one. The characters seem very realistic and some of the stories are very touching. The author gives a good description on family obligations and how those relate to everyday life on the island he is doing his work.

[Sherry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Important to understand the historical role of anthropology and ethnography.