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.
Each text takes a different perspective, is written in a different style, and has different "outcomes.
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.
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