Being there : learning to live cross-culturally / edited by Sarah H. Davis and Melvin Konner. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011. - ix, 260 p. ; 21 cm.

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

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Cross-cultural orientation.
Intercultural communication.
Culture shock.

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