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Author Dutton, Edward

Title Culture Shock and Multiculturalism : Reclaiming a Useful Model from the Religious Realm
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES
Summary 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 ..
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Subject Culture shock.
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects.
Culture conflict.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Culture conflict
Culture shock
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443835572
1443835579