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Being There : Learning to Live Cross-Culturally.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674063334
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Being ThereDDC classification:
  • 303.48/2
LOC classification:
  • GN345
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Becoming Human -- 1. A Kind of Kinship -- 2. Saints and Outcasts: La Negrita and the Accidental Catholic -- 3. Mad to Be Modern -- 4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist -- 5. Two Women -- 6. Graça -- 7. Insult and Danger: Anthropology among Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and Wild Chimpanzee -- 8. Shame and Making Truth: The Social Repairs of Ethnographic Blunders -- 9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet -- 10. Time Travel -- 11. Prostitutes with Honor: A Researcher with Shame -- 12. A Widening Circle: Family, Collaboration, and Lifelong Ethnography in Canyon de Chelly -- 13. Japanese Ghosts Don't Have Feet -- 14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals -- 15. My Family's Honor -- 16. Return to Nisa -- Contributors.
Summary: As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain and illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Becoming Human -- 1. A Kind of Kinship -- 2. Saints and Outcasts: La Negrita and the Accidental Catholic -- 3. Mad to Be Modern -- 4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist -- 5. Two Women -- 6. Graça -- 7. Insult and Danger: Anthropology among Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and Wild Chimpanzee -- 8. Shame and Making Truth: The Social Repairs of Ethnographic Blunders -- 9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet -- 10. Time Travel -- 11. Prostitutes with Honor: A Researcher with Shame -- 12. A Widening Circle: Family, Collaboration, and Lifelong Ethnography in Canyon de Chelly -- 13. Japanese Ghosts Don't Have Feet -- 14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals -- 15. My Family's Honor -- 16. Return to Nisa -- Contributors.

As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing, experiencing it is quite another. In tales that entertain and illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.

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