A Thrice Told Tale discusses issues regarding feminist and post-modernism. The author Margery Wolf a feminist anthropologist makes use of three different text developed through her research in Taiwan. In her book, Wolf uses three different perspective of the same event, all written by her and for different reasons, and despite the fact that they are all portraying the same event, they are all very different aspects of that event. “In all of them, Wolf is more willing than the villagers to believe that Mrs. Tan is as authentic a “shaman” (as she mistranslates dang-gi; it should be spirit medium since the dang-gi does not control the spirits but is controlled by them) as any other one -- since she appears to believe that none are” (Murray 2000,Note 1). The first story she writes is a short, fictional story, the second is from her field notes and the third is actually an article she published in 1990.  After each section, Wolf adds brief commentary on her own writing, where she investigates fiction versus ethnography, authorial presence, reflexivity, and other issues brought up by postmodernism (Wolf 1992:from the back book cover). This allows me as reader to appreciate the importance of Ethnography coming from different angles and to differentiate enjoyable reading from least enjoyable reading. In Wolf’s publication of A Thrice Told Tale she showcases three different perspectives and therefore bring forward a different message or opinion. Wolf points out the difference between the anthropological research from men and women’s perspectives. She states that “When women were using the experimental approach to ethnographic writing, much of it was dismissed as ‘self-indulgence’ now that it is being done by men, it is called ‘experimental,’” In other words, women mess around on the fringes of knowledge/art/literature/whatever” (Wolf 1992, p. 50). I feel as though this powerful statement has a great effect on the read