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Culture Shock and Multiculturalism : Reclaiming a Useful Model from the Religious Realm
ISBN: 9781443835572
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science;

It used to be widely accepted amongst anthropologists that when they conducted fieldwork with foreign cultures they experienced something called OCyculture shock.OCO This book will argue that OCyculture shockOCO is a useful model for understanding an important part of human experience. However, in its most widely-known form, the stage model, OCyculture shockOCO has been heavily influenced by the same anti-science, latter-day religiosity that has become so influential more broadly: Multiculturalism. This..."