Thrice-Told Tale Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility

Name: Thrice-Told Tale Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility
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ISBN: 9780804719803

ISBN-10: 0804719802

ISBN-13: 9780804719803

Edition: 1992

Authors: Margery Wolf

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A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out of her research in Taiwan—a piece of fiction, anthropological fieldnotes, and a social science article—to explore some of these criticisms. Each text takes a different perspective, is written in a different style, and has different "outcomes," yet all three involve the same fascinating set of events. A young mother began to behave in a decidedly abherrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason.…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 164
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface



Ruminations with a View(point)



The Hot Spell


Commentary



Fieldnotes


Commentary



The Woman Who Didn't Become a Shaman


Commentary



Writing Ethnography: the Poetics and Politics of Culture


References Cited


Index