TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Konner, Melvin, 
AU  - Behar, Ruth, 
AU  - Boehm, Chris, 
AU  - Brown, Louise, 
AU  - Dalby, Liza, 
AU  - Davis, Sarah H., 
AU  - Davis, Sarah H., 
AU  - Gottlieb, Alma, 
AU  - Graham, Philip, 
AU  - Greene, Melissa Fay, 
AU  - Gregg, Jessica, 
AU  - Hay, M. Cameron, 
AU  - Konner, Melvin, 
AU  - Lughod, Lila Abu-, 
AU  - Sharman, Russell Leigh, 
AU  - Shore, Bradd, 
AU  - Shore, Robert, 
AU  - Shostak, Marjorie, 
AU  - Simonelli, Jeanne, 
AU  - Wood, John C., 
CN  - GN345.65
DO  - 10.4159/harvard.9780674063334
DO  - doi
EP  - ZDB-23-DGG
EP  - ZDB-23-DGE
ID  - 1479058
JF  - E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
JF  - E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011
JF  - E-BOOK PAKET PHILOSOPHIE UND GESCHICHTE 2011
JF  - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
JF  - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
KW  - Cross-cultural orientation.
KW  - Culture shock.
KW  - Intercultural communication.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674063334
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9780674063334
T1  - Being There :Learning to Live Cross-Culturally /
TI  - Being There :Learning to Live Cross-Culturally /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674063334
ER  -