LEADER 04321nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910823639103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06333-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674063334 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074714 035 $a(EBL)3301024 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000552009 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11352758 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000552009 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10538758 035 $a(PQKB)10711420 035 $a(DE-B1597)178137 035 $a(OCoLC)769101889 035 $a(OCoLC)979683595 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674063334 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301024 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10518234 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301024 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074714 100 $a20110307d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBeing there$b[electronic resource] $elearning to live cross-culturally /$fedited by Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-04927-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface / $rKonner, Melvin -- $tIntroduction / $rDavis, Sarah H. -- $t1. A Kind of Kinship / $rLughod, Lila Abu- -- $t2. Saints and Outcasts / $rSharman, Russell Leigh -- $t3. Mad to Be Modern / $rGottlieb, Alma / Graham, Philip -- $t4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist / $rBehar, Ruth -- $t5. Two Women / $rKonner, Melvin -- $t6. Graça / $rGregg, Jessica -- $t7. Insult and Danger / $rBoehm, Chris -- $t8. Shame and Making Truth / $rHay, M. Cameron -- $t9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet / $rGreene, Melissa Fay -- $t10. Time Travel / $rShore, Robert / Shore, Bradd -- $t11. Prostitutes with Honor / $rBrown, Louise -- $t12. A Widening Circle / $rSimonelli, Jeanne -- $t13. Japa nese Ghosts Don't Have Feet / $rDalby, Liza -- $t14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals / $rWood, John C. -- $t15. My Family's Honor / $rDavis, Sarah H. -- $t16. Return to Nisa / $rShostak, Marjorie -- $tContributors 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aCross-cultural orientation 606 $aIntercultural communication 606 $aCulture shock 615 0$aCross-cultural orientation. 615 0$aIntercultural communication. 615 0$aCulture shock. 676 $a303.48/2 700 $aKonner$b Melvin, $0562360 701 $aDavis$b Sarah H$01668916 701 $aKonner$b Melvin$0562360 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823639103321 996 $aBeing there$94029868 997 $aUNINA