Departures, Journeys, and (Sometimes) Returns : The Village we left behind / My Van Vu -- Sunrise on the veld / Doris Lessing -- Poor visitor / Jamica Kincaid -- Tingiivik Tatqiq : the moon when birds fly south (September) / Richard K. Nelson -- The Picking season / Graham Sheil -- The Hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera -- The Plane reservation / Massud Farzan -- Grandmother's country / N. Scott Momaday -- Defining ourselves and others : I'm black, you're white, who's innocent? / Shelby Steele -- The Tall woman and her short husband / Feng Jicai -- The Bench / Richard Rive -- An Image of Africa / Chinua Achebe -- A Country, not a scenario / Norman Mailer -- A Coward / Premchand -- Not a thing out of place / Tewfiq al-Hakim -- Communication in a global village / Dean Barnlund.
The Challenges of Intercultural Experience : The Moccasin telegraph / W.P. Kinsella -- Scoshi / Joanne Brown -- Learning a new culture / Solon T. Kimball -- You have left your lotus pods on the bus / Paul Bowles -- A Weekend in Bandung / H. Jathar Salij -- Myself in India / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- What is culture? / Jawaharlal Negru.
Patterns, Habits, and Values of Culture : Social time : the heartbeat of culture / Robert Levine, with Ellen Wolff -- Waiting : Janette Turner Hospital -- I scream, you scream : the cultural significance of ice cream / Henry C. Binford -- Kyoiku mamas / Carol Simons -- Latin America : a quixotic land where the bizarre is routine / William D. Montalbano -- The Day of the dead / Octavio Paz -- Love and sex in the life of the Arab / Nawal el-Saadawi.
Culture and Language, Body Language, and Perception : Man at the mercy of language / Peter Farb -- Linguistic factors in prejudice / Gordon W. Allport -- Memories of a bilingual childhood / Richard Rodriguez -- Open admissions / Shirley Lauro -- Translation cultures : or, what's George Washington doing in a sushi bar? / Phyillis I. Lyons -- The Sounds of silence / Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall -- Why do Frenchmen? / Gregory Bateson -- The Stuffing of the Lord / Sabine Ulibarri.
Encountering American Patterns of Culture : Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace M. Miner -- America of the people / Rimma Kazakova -- Paths upon water / Tahira Naqvi -- Your place is empty / Anne Tyler -- Be American / Carlos Bulosan -- A Father / Bharati Mukherjee -- The Hmong in America / Spencer Sherman -- America : the multinational society / Ishmael Reed.
Cultural exchanges in study and work : Nothing in our hands but age / Raquel Puig Zaldivar -- Bloomington, Fall 1971 / Yearn Hong Choi -- Cultural shock in reverse / James R. Corey -- Senor payroll / William E. Barrett -- Culture shock and the American businessman overseas / Lawrence Stessin -- A Farewell to the old order / Similih M. Cordor -- How Datsun discovered America / David Halberstam.
Matters of love and family : Chee's daughter / Juanita Platero and Siyowin Miller -- The Health of the sick / Julio Cortazar -- The Name / Aharon Megged -- Love must not be forgotten / Zhang Jie -- Solo on the drums / Ann Petry -- Before sunrise / V. Goryushkin -- Big mama's funeral / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Making do / Linda Hogan.
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