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They Lie, We Lie, They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory. Thi, They Lie, We Lie
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  • They Lie, We Lie
  • Written by author Peter Metcalf
  • Published by Routledge, 10/25/2001
  • They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory. Thi
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List of illustrations
1 Lies 1
"Something spoken which is not true" 2
They lie, we lie 5
Getting on with anthropology 9
2 Struggle 17
Learning experiences 17
Kasi's preemptive strike 23
The polite fictions of research proposals 29
Kasi throws up her defenses 32
The siege 35
My fifth column 39
3 Power 43
Hearts and minds 44
Colonial involvements 51
Going into the villages 55
People invisible to the state 69
4 Ethnicity 77
Lelakness 78
The vanishing point 83
Foregrounding the Berawan 92
Lost tribes 97
The true Berawan 99
Keeping things in perspective 104
5 Closure 109
"Lelak" 109
Throwing away the old way 112
Kasi's vanishing 115
Cultural obituaries 117
Indignities 120
Demolishing "Upriver" 125
Constructing "Upriver People" 127
No closure 135
Notes 139
References 143
Index 153


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