Analysis of Margery Wolfe's "A Thrice Told Tale"

Margery Wolf offers three tales. The first is a short story she wrote more than thirty years ago, when she helped her husband, a graduate student in anthropology, complete a field study of a village in Taiwan. The second tale is the field notes that she and others wrote during that time. The final tale is a journal article, published in 1990 that Wolf, now a full-fledged anthropologist, based on the same incident she wrote about in the field notes and in the short story. Using a feminist perspective, Wolf ruminates on postmodern ethnographers' main issues: the effects of the self on qualitative accounts, representation of the 'other,' power relations between fieldworkers and those they study.
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