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Author Dumont, Jean-Paul, 1940-

Title Visayan vignettes : ethnographic traces of a Philippine island / Jean-Paul Dumont
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992

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Description xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Dumont, Jean-Paul, 1940-
Dumont, Jean Paul.
Cebuano (Philippine people)
Ethnologists -- Philippines -- Siquijor Island.
Ethnology -- Philippines -- Siquijor Island.
Ethnology -- Philippines -- Siquijor Island.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
LC no. 91037573
ISBN 0226169545 (alk. paper)
0226169553 (paperback: alk. paper)