Being There : Learning to Live Cross-Culturally / Melvin Konner; ed. by Sarah H. Davis.
Konner, Melvin, author.; Behar, Ruth, contributor.; Boehm, Chris, contributor.; Brown, Louise, contributor.; Dalby, Liza, contributor.; Davis, Sarah H., contributor.; Davis, Sarah H., editor.; Gottlieb, Alma, contributor.; Graham, Philip, contributor.; Greene, Melissa Fay, contributor.; Gregg, Jessica, contributor.; Hay, M. Cameron, contributor.; Konner, Melvin, contributor.; Lughod, Lila Abu-, contributor.; Sharman, Russell Leigh, contributor.; Shore, Bradd, contributor.; Shore, Robert, contributor.; Shostak, Marjorie, contributor.; Simonelli, Jeanne, contributor.; Wood, John C., contributor.
2011
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Title
Being There : Learning to Live Cross-Culturally / Melvin Konner; ed. by Sarah H. Davis.
Author
Konner, Melvin, author.
ISBN
9780674063334
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (272 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/harvard.9780674063334 doi
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GN345.65 .R47 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/2
Summary
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 quite another. In tales that entertain as much as they illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.Their insights were gained only after discomforts resulting mainly from the authors' own blunders in the field. From Brazil to Botswana, Egypt to Indonesia, Mongolia to Pakistan, mistakes were made. Offering a gift to a Navajo man at the beginning of an interview, rather than the end, caused one author to lose his entire research project. In Côte d'Ivoire, a Western family was targeted by the village madman, leading the parents to fear for the safety of their child even as they suspected that their very presence had triggered his madness. At a time when misunderstanding of cultural difference is an undeniable source of conflict, we need stories like these more than ever before.
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Behar, Ruth, contributor.
Boehm, Chris, contributor.
Brown, Louise, contributor.
Dalby, Liza, contributor.
Davis, Sarah H., contributor.
Davis, Sarah H., editor.
Gottlieb, Alma, contributor.
Graham, Philip, contributor.
Greene, Melissa Fay, contributor.
Gregg, Jessica, contributor.
Hay, M. Cameron, contributor.
Konner, Melvin, contributor.
Lughod, Lila Abu-, contributor.
Sharman, Russell Leigh, contributor.
Shore, Bradd, contributor.
Shore, Robert, contributor.
Shostak, Marjorie, contributor.
Simonelli, Jeanne, contributor.
Wood, John C., contributor.
Boehm, Chris, contributor.
Brown, Louise, contributor.
Dalby, Liza, contributor.
Davis, Sarah H., contributor.
Davis, Sarah H., editor.
Gottlieb, Alma, contributor.
Graham, Philip, contributor.
Greene, Melissa Fay, contributor.
Gregg, Jessica, contributor.
Hay, M. Cameron, contributor.
Konner, Melvin, contributor.
Lughod, Lila Abu-, contributor.
Sharman, Russell Leigh, contributor.
Shore, Bradd, contributor.
Shore, Robert, contributor.
Shostak, Marjorie, contributor.
Simonelli, Jeanne, contributor.
Wood, John C., contributor.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. A Kind of Kinship
2. Saints and Outcasts
3. Mad to Be Modern
4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist
5. Two Women
6. Graça
7. Insult and Danger
8. Shame and Making Truth
9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet
10. Time Travel
11. Prostitutes with Honor
12. A Widening Circle
13. Japa nese Ghosts Don't Have Feet
14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals
15. My Family's Honor
16. Return to Nisa
Contributors
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. A Kind of Kinship
2. Saints and Outcasts
3. Mad to Be Modern
4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist
5. Two Women
6. Graça
7. Insult and Danger
8. Shame and Making Truth
9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet
10. Time Travel
11. Prostitutes with Honor
12. A Widening Circle
13. Japa nese Ghosts Don't Have Feet
14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals
15. My Family's Honor
16. Return to Nisa
Contributors