LANGUAGE....: English
GENRE.......: Anthropology
COMPANY.....: Harvard University Press
VERSION.....: 2011
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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
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.

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