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Culture Shock and Multiculturalism : Reclaiming a Useful Model from the Religious Realm.

It used to be widely accepted amongst anthropologists that when they conducted fieldwork with foreign cultures they experienced something called 'culture shock.' This book will argue that 'culture shock' is a useful model for understanding an important part of human experience. H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dutton, Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
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Sumario:It used to be widely accepted amongst anthropologists that when they conducted fieldwork with foreign cultures they experienced something called 'culture shock.' This book will argue that 'culture shock' is a useful model for understanding an important part of human experience. However, in its most widely-known form, the stage model, 'culture shock' has been heavily influenced by the same anti-science, latter-day religiosity that has become so influential more broadly: Multiculturalism. This ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (269 pages)
ISBN:9781443835572
1443835579