Author: Craig Storti
Publisher: Intercultural Press
Keywords: cultural, difference, encounters, dialogues, cross, brief
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1877864285
ISBN-13: 9781877864285
According to Craig Storti, so much culture lurks in the common conversation that many of our most common, seemingly innocent exchanges are cultural minefields waiting to explode into cultural misunderstandings. This work is a collection of brief conversations between an American and someone from another country and culture. Each contains at least one breach of cultural norms, which the reader is challenged to figure out. Read on one’s own, the dialogues can be your introduction to cross-cultural understanding. Used in training sessions, they help participants explore cultural differences
Author: Matthew Jefferies
Publisher: Interlink Pub Group
Keywords: cultural, histories, history, hamburg
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2011-06-20
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1566568463
ISBN-13: 9781566568463
A cultural guide to a colorful European destination that has been overlooked for too long, Hamburg has much to offer its 8 million annual visitors. It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In fact, despite possessing Europe’s second-busiest port, this "amphibious city" lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its long-standing image as a "city without culture" is also something of a myth. When the poet Heine remarked that in Hamburg "the customs are English," he was referring to its no-nonsense mercantile ethos which dates back to the era of the Hanseatic League. Yet
Author: Jason Wilso
Publisher: Interlink Book
Keywords: cultural, series, histories, history, buenos, aires
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 156656347X
ISBN-13: 9781566563475
Author: Peter Lamal
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: cultural, practices, perspectives, behavior, contingencies, analytic
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-10-28
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0275957764
ISBN-13: 9780275957766
In recent years, a number of books devoted to a behavior analytic approach to cultural practices have appeared, and this book falls within that domain. At the same time, however, this book is unique in that it minimizes the space devoted to abstract discussion of behavior analytic concepts and principles. Instead, the authors focus exclusively upon particular cultural practices, which are disparate and drawn from three countries, ranging from public health practices to historical utopian communities to various practices of visual artists, art dealers, and gallery owners. In addition, cultural
Author: Kate Fitz Gibbon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: cultural, law, property, policy, owns, past
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-09-08
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0813536871
ISBN-13: 9780813536873
Public and private institutions in the United States have long been home to a variety of art works, antiquities, and ethnological materials. For years, these collections have been seen as important archives that allow present and future generations to enjoy, appreciate, and value the art of all cultures. The past decade, however, has seen major changes in law and public policy and an active, ongoing debate over legal and ethical issues affecting the ownership of art and other cultural property. Contributors to Who Owns the Past? include legal scholars, museum professionals, anthropologists,
Author: James K.A. Smith
Publisher: Baker Academic
Keywords: cultural, formation, liturgies, worldview, kingdom, worship, desiring
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0801035775
ISBN-13: 9780801035777
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in what will be a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God. Ultimately, Smith seeks to re-vision education through the process and practice of worship. Students of philosophy, theology, worldview,
Author: Rod Edmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: cultural, social, histories, cambridge, history, medical, leprosy, empire
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $104.00
ISBN-10: 0521865840
ISBN-13: 9780521865845
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the disease in ’colonies’, often on offshore islands. Discussion of the segregation of lepers is then extended to analogous examples of thi
