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Being there : learning to live cross-culturally / edited by Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.Description: ix, 260 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780674049277
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.482 22
Contents:
a kind of kinship / Lila Abu-Lugbod -- Saints and outcasts: La Negrita and the accidental Catholic / Russell Leigh Sharman -- Mad to be modern / Alma Gottlieb, Philip Graham -- The evil eye of the anthropologist / Ruth Behar -- Two women / Melvin Konner -- Graça / Jessica Gregg -- Insult and danger: anthropology among Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and wild chimpanzees / Chris Boehm -- Shame and making truth: the social repairs of ethnographic blunders / M. Cameron Hay -- Far from home, and being gnawed on by a Vervet / Melissa Fay Greene -- Time travel / Robert Shore, Bradd Shore -- Prostitutes with honor: a researcher with shame / Louise Brown -- A widening circle: family, collaboration, and lifelong ethnography in canyon de Chelly / Jeanne Simonelli -- Japanese ghosts don't have feet / Liza Dalby -- Field relations, field betrayals / John C. Wood -- My family's honor / Sarah H. Davis -- Return to Nisa / Marjorie Shostak.
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Main Library East Wing General Stacks 303.482 BEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GUL22070122

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a kind of kinship / Lila Abu-Lugbod -- Saints and outcasts: La Negrita and the accidental Catholic / Russell Leigh Sharman -- Mad to be modern / Alma Gottlieb, Philip Graham -- The evil eye of the anthropologist / Ruth Behar -- Two women / Melvin Konner -- Graça / Jessica Gregg -- Insult and danger: anthropology among Navajos, Montenegrin Serbs, and wild chimpanzees / Chris Boehm -- Shame and making truth: the social repairs of ethnographic blunders / M. Cameron Hay -- Far from home, and being gnawed on by a Vervet / Melissa Fay Greene -- Time travel / Robert Shore, Bradd Shore -- Prostitutes with honor: a researcher with shame / Louise Brown -- A widening circle: family, collaboration, and lifelong ethnography in canyon de Chelly / Jeanne Simonelli -- Japanese ghosts don't have feet / Liza Dalby -- Field relations, field betrayals / John C. Wood -- My family's honor / Sarah H. Davis -- Return to Nisa / Marjorie Shostak.

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