Cross-Cultural

"Distant Mirrors: America as a Foriegn Culture"

Philip R. DeVita and James D. Armstrong

Anthropology has a long history of the "other," yet we can look right here at home for the strangeness we seek. We often neglect to ask the questions that reveal our own culture's underlying value and beliefs. In this volume, we bring the American culture into focus. For students to understand the full impact of ethnography, to experience cultural relativity and to gain a foundation to build informed comparisons, students need a firm grasp of their own culture--and need to use this volume. The Third Edition consists of 19 essays written by anthropologists and other scholars using an ethnographic perspective. The essays enable students to understand themselves better by focusing on their own culture and seeing it from a new perspective. This collection gives anthropology a comparative perspective that provides a reflective lens, a mirror, for understanding ourselves and the world in which we live.

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"The Whole World Guide to Culture Learning"

J. Daniel Hess

Hess offers a thorough and substantive introduction to the ideas which provide the framework for culture learning along with extensive practical guidelines on how to extract the desired learning from the cross-cultural experience.

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