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Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island [Hardcover]

Jean-Paul Dumont (Author)
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0226169545 978-0226169545 June 1, 1992 1
"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

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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.

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  • Hardcover: 246 pages
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (June 1, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0226169545
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226169545
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good example of how to approach Filipino culture, July 27, 1998
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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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FROM THE OUTSET, I have consistently thought this to be a book about the Visayas, the islands of the central Philippines, and particularly about Siquijor, which lent its expanse to our shared interpretive enterprise. Read the first page
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barangay people, barangay residents, different sitio, town bourgeoisie, barangay captain, palm toddy, social amnesia, town elite, local bourgeoisie
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Auntie Diding, Negros Oriental, Bonifacio Quilicot, Pedro Dagatan, United States, San Juan, World War, Cebu City, Victor Saplot, Isla de Fuegos, Martínez Cuesta, Ned Pasco, Peace Corps, Father Valentin, Fidel Mahinay, Filemon Lapinig, Leon Isoy, Pedro de Figueroa, Santas Bato, Zosing Yano, Fifty Coconut Palms, Francisco de Molina, Full Provincial Status, James Fugate, Luis Dagatan
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