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