Being There : : Learning to Live Cross-Culturally /

Being There : : Learning to Live Cross-Culturally / / Melvin Konner; ed. by Sarah H. Davis.

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How 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
VerfasserIn:
Konner, Melvin,
MitwirkendeR:
Behar, Ruth,
Boehm, Chris,
Brown, Louise,
Dalby, Liza,
Davis, Sarah H.,
Gottlieb, Alma,
Graham, Philip,
Greene, Melissa Fay,
Gregg, Jessica,
Hay, M. Cameron,
Konner, Melvin,
Lughod, Lila Abu-,
Sharman, Russell Leigh,
Shore, Bradd,
Shore, Robert,
Shostak, Marjorie,
Simonelli, Jeanne,
Wood, John C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Davis, Sarah H.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Kind of Kinship
  • 2. Saints and Outcasts
  • 3. Mad to Be Modern
  • 4. The Evil Eye of the Anthropologist
  • 5. Two Women
  • 6. Graça
  • 7. Insult and Danger
  • 8. Shame and Making Truth
  • 9. Far from Home, and Being Gnawed on by a Vervet
  • 10. Time Travel
  • 11. Prostitutes with Honor
  • 12. A Widening Circle
  • 13. Japa nese Ghosts Don't Have Feet
  • 14. Field Relations, Field Betrayals
  • 15. My Family's Honor
  • 16. Return to Nisa
  • Contributors

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