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Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally
Sarah H. Davis
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Description for Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally
Paperback. As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. This title shows how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding. Editor(s): Davis, Sarah H.; Konner, Melvin. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are more (or less) honorable: those of a prostitute who sells her daughter’s virginity to a rich man, or those of a professor who sanctions her daughter’s hook-ups with casual acquaintances? As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures and navigate the relationships that take shape, the authors of these essays, most of them trained anthropologists, find that accepting cultural difference is one thing, experiencing it is ... Read more
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Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674049277
SKU
V9780674049277
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About Sarah H. Davis
Sarah H. Davis earned her PhD in cultural anthropology at Emory University. Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University.
Reviews for Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally
All preparing for extended stays in a culture foreign to them, whether for research or other purposes, can read the collection with profit.
R. Berleant-Schiller
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