RaveThe Wall Street Journal... perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature. To his immense credit, Mr. Kulick refuses to embrace the postmodern conceit that anthropology is part of the colonial agenda, yet another way of subjugating a people by recording their knowledge, and that the very presence of the Western scholar in the field is an exercise in power, a tool of oppression ... leaves the reader dazzled by the wizardry of linguistic scholarship ... Writing with verve and simple elegance, without a hint of bravado, [Mr. Kulick] describes the ritual humiliations of fieldwork ... astonishing.
