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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good example of how to approach Filipino culture,
By rwi@teleport.com (Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island (Paperback)
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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Visayan Vignettes: Ethnographic Traces of a Philippine Island by Jean-Paul Dumont (Hardcover - June 1, 1992)
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