Title: Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture
Abstract: 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.
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-10-14
Language: en
Type: book
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