Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island / Edition 1

by Jean-Paul Dumont

Overview

"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226169552
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	06/01/1992
Series:	Morality and Society Ser.
Edition description:	1
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jean-Paul Dumont is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and author of several books in English and French, including The Headman and I and two collections of poetry.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Language
Dramatis Personae
1. Prologue: Ang mga hulagway sa kabisaya-an, or Visayan Vignettes
2. Auntie Diding
3. Imagine an Island
4. A Touristic Attraction
5. Full Provincial Status
6. Auntie Diding's Household
7. Views from Afar
8. Two Brothers, a Field, and Fifty Coconut Palms
9. Conflict of Interpretation
10. Ned and Minay
11. A Lame Story
12. Of Fish and Men
13. The Just-So Story of a Tilting Umbrella
14. Big Bills
15. Forgetting Relatives
16. A Name of Repute
17. Good with Numbers
18. Feeling, Dreaming, Remembering
19. Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

An anthropologist recounts his and his wife's interactions with the natives during two extended visits to an island in the central Philippines in the 1980s. Delightful stories buttressed by ethnographic information such as kinship charts, a list of characters, maps, and a guide to pronunciation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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