Distant mirrors :

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Distant mirrors : America as a foreign culture / edited by Philip R. DeVita, James D. Armstrong. - Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1993 [i.e. 1992]
viii, 145 p. ; 24 cm. Content notes : Outsiders' reflections on being American: some pedagogical concerns / James Armstrong -- My American glasses / Francisco Martins Ramos -- American graffiti: curious derivatives of individualism / Jin K. Kim -- An outsider's view of American culture / Janusz L. Mucha -- America and I / Hervé Varenne -- A cross-cultural experience: a Chinese anthropologist in the United States / Huang Shu-min -- The young, the rich, and the famous: individualism as an American cultural value / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel -- Growing up American: doing the right thing / Amparo B. Ojeda -- Forms of address: how their social functions may vary / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- First impressions: diary of a French anthropologist in New York City / Françoise Dussart -- Life and cultures: the test of real participant observation / E.L. Cerroni-Long -- America for Americans / Rik Pinxten -- Gender encounters in America: an outsider's view of continuity and ambivalence / Rahel Wasserfall -- Neighborly strangers / Honggang Yang -- A European anthropologist's personal and ethnographic impressions of the United States / Emanuel J. Drechsel. 0534176763 (acid-free paper) 9780534176761 (acid-free paper) * Popular culture - Foreign public opinion. - United States Cross-Cultural Comparison - United States. Cultural Characteristics - United States. Social Environment - United States. * United States - Social life and customs- Foreign public opinion. - 1971- * DeVita, Philip R.,Armstrong, James D., * Title