Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture
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0534556485
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9780534556488
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Publication Year
2001
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Pages
216
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Anthropology has a long history of the "other," yet we can look right here at home for the strangeness we seek. We often neglect to ask the questions that reveal our own culture's underlying value and beliefs. In this volume, we bring the American culture into focus. For students to understand the full impact of ethnography, to experience cultural relativity and to gain a foundation to build informed comparisons, students need a firm grasp of their own culture--and need to use this volume. The Third Edition consists of 19 essays written by anthropologists and other scholars using an ethnographic perspective. The essays enable students to understand themselves better by focusing on their own culture and seeing it from a new perspective. This collection gives anthropology a comparative perspective that provides a reflective lens, a mirror, for understanding ourselves and the world in which we live.
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Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 158 | E169.Z83 D578 2001 | 1 | Yes |