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The Second Edition consists of 19 essays written by anthropologists and other scholars using an ethnographic perspective to interpret aspects of American culture. These essays enable students to understand themselves better by focusing on others in their cultures, giving anthropology a comparative perspective that provides a reflective lens for understanding ourselves in the world in which we live. The essays were chosen for their perceptiveness and readability; they avoid jargon and heavy analysis.

Table of Contents:
American graffiti - curious derivatives of individualism, Jin Kim; my American glasses, Francisco Martins Ramos; giving, withholding, and meeting midway - a poet's ethnography, Saleem Peerandina; a cross-cultural experience - a Chinese anthropologist in the United States, Huang Shu-Min; first impressions - diary of a French anthropologist in New York City, Francoise Dussart; an outsider's view of American culture, Janusz L. Mucha; growing up American - doing the right thing, Amparo Ojeda; forms of address - how their social functions may vary, Salikoko S. Mufwene; pais de mis suenos - reflections on ethnic labels, dichotomies, and ritual interaction, Gisela Ernst; the young, the rich and the famous - individualism as an American cultural value, Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel; gender encounters in America - an outsider's view of continuity and ambivalence, Rahel Wasserfall; neighbourly strangers, Honggang Yang; encounters with the elderly in America, Yohko Tsuji; America for Americans, Rik Pinxten; a Russian teacher in America, Andre Toom; learning to hug - an English anthropologist's experiences in North America, by Geoffrey Hunt; America and I, Herve Varenne; life and cultures - the test of real participant observation, E.L. Cerroni-Long; a European anthropologist's personal and ethnographic impressions of the United States, Emanuel J. Drechsel.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780534257347
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: America as a Foreign Culture
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0534257348
  • Publisher Date: 05 Aug 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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