Description: Peter Metcalf gives an engaging account of his fieldwork in Borneo, telling the story of his tortuous relationship with Kasi, a formidable old lady who, for twenty years, tried to strictly control what he learnt about her community.
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"In a critically plausible and aesthetically pleasing project, Peter Metcalf addresses some major arguments against, anxieties about, and 'epistemological skepticism' toward anthropology as a whole... The argument Metcalf develops through the book is concretized in richly detailed, thick description of twenty years of ethnographic research... significantly contributes to a critically reflexive dialogue on ethnographic practices." - Anthropology and Education Quarterly