Description: The Story Began Long Ago..... I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box The triple bind Silence in time Rites of passage The Guilt Freedom and the masses For the people, by the people, and from the people Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language A sketched window on the world The infinite play of empty mirrors Writing woman II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with Man The reign of worn codes The positivist dream: We, the natives; They, the natives A Western Science of man A Myth of mythology What "man" and which "man"? Gossip and science: a conversation on what I love according to truth Nativist interpretation See them as they see each other III. Difference: "A Special Third World Women Issue" The Policy of "separate development" The Sense of specialness The question of roots and authenticity Infinite Layer: I am not i can be you and me The female identity enclosure Third World? "Woman" and the subtle power of linguistic exclusion Subject-in-the-making Ethnicity or womanhood: whose duality? The Gender controversy IV. Grandma's Story Truth and fact: story and history Keepers and transmitters Storytelling in the "civilized" context A regenerating force At once "black" and "white" magic The woman warrior: she who breaks open the spell A cure and a protection from illness "Tell it the way they tell it" "The story must be told. There must not be any lie" Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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