Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally

by Melvin Konner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674049276
• ISBN13: 9780674049277
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"