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A young mother began to behave in a decidedly aberrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason. Was she becoming a shaman, posessed by a god? Was she deranged, in need of physical restraint, drugs, and hospitalization?

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"A Thrice-Told Tale provides enjoyable fiction, important glimpses of fieldwork methodology, first-rate feminist analysis, and stimulating polemic. It can be used with students—of history, women's studies and other fields in addition to anthropology." -- Journal of Oriental Studies

Table of Contents
1. Ruminations with a view(point) 2. The hot spell 3. Fieldnotes 4. The woman who didn't become a Shaman 5. Writing ethnography: the poetics and politics of culture Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/04/1992
      ISBN13: 9780804719803, 978-0804719803
      ISBN10: 0804719802
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      Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A young mother began to behave in a decidedly aberrant, perhaps suicidal manner, and opinion in her village was sharply divided over the reason. Was she becoming a shaman, posessed by a god? Was she deranged, in need of physical restraint, drugs, and hospitalization?

      Trade Review
      "A Thrice-Told Tale provides enjoyable fiction, important glimpses of fieldwork methodology, first-rate feminist analysis, and stimulating polemic. It can be used with students—of history, women's studies and other fields in addition to anthropology." -- Journal of Oriental Studies

      Table of Contents
      1. Ruminations with a view(point) 2. The hot spell 3. Fieldnotes 4. The woman who didn't become a Shaman 5. Writing ethnography: the poetics and politics of culture Index.

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