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One World, Many Cultures, 7/E
Stuart Hirschberg, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, Newark
Terry Hirschberg

ISBN-10: 0205605451
ISBN-13: 9780205605453

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 544 pp
Published: 07/03/2008

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The best of all possible worlds!  This truly global multicultural reader features contemporary selections by sixty-one internationally acclaimed authors from twenty-six countries.

 

These compelling readings explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender and nationality, challenging students to compare their experiences with those of others in radically different cultural circumstances.  Eight thematic chapters explore cultural perspectives on human experiences around the globe; family life, adolescent relationships, gender roles, work, race and class conflicts, customs, rituals and values.  New chapters focus on geopolitical issues and experiencing different cultures.

  • Five distinguished short stories are integrated with 56 non-fiction selections, including essays, autobiographies, and memoirs.  Nearly half of the selections are by women.
  • The general introduction teaches critical reading, including the reading journal, and includes a new section on the writing process.  
  • Extensive apparatus includes chapter introductions and introductory quotations, biographical sketches, end-of-selection questions, and end-of-chapter questions called “Connecting Cultures,” which encourage students to explore comparisons and connections among selections.
  • The rich sampling of readings by writers who are native to the cultures they describe allows students to “hear” authentic voices rather than filtered journalistic reports.
  • Appendices include a geographical index, a pronunciation guide, a map of the world highlighting the countries mentioned in the text, and a subject index
  • The Instructor's Manual offers teaching suggestions (“approachings”) for each selection, bibliographies of books and periodicals, a guide to teaching short fiction and writing about films, an expanded filmography, and a list of online resources for each writer in this anthology.

  • Twenty-six new readings–almost half the book–provide timely reflections on the issues of today. 
  • Expanded chapter introductions put the focus on skills and strategies for writing within the theme covered in each chapter. 
  • A new chapter (Ch. 6) on Geopolitical Issues challenges basic assumptions of U.S. culture and looks at how those assumptions impact thinking around the world.   
  • A new chapter (Ch. 7) on Experiencing A Different Culture explores what it means to be “the other” in a variety of cultures.
  • Readings reflect 26 countries–four more than in the past edition.

* Denotes selections new to this edition. Each chapter concludes with “Connecting Cultures” questions.

 

Rhetorical Contents

Preface

 

Introduction.

Critical Reading for Ideas and Organization.

Finding a Thesis.

Responding to What You Read.

Marking as You Read.

Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion.

A Sample Essay for Student Annotation, Edward T. Hall, “Hidden Culture.”

Keeping a Reading Journal.

Writing Your Essay



1. The Family in Different Cultures

Gayle Pemberton, Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Amy Tan, The Language of Discretion

** Joe Bageant, Valley of the Gun

Fritz Peters, Boyhood with Gurdjieff (France)

Steve Sailer, The Cousin Marriage Conundrum (Iraq)

Daniela Deane, The Little Emperors (China)

** Firoozeh Dumas, The Wedding  (Iran/US)

** Lu Xun, A Happy Family (short story)  (China)

Connecting Cultures

2. Turning Points.

Sucheng Chan, You're Short, Besides!

** Enid Schildkrout, Body Art as Visual Language

Christy Brown, The Letter 'A.'  (Ireland)

Sabine Reichel, Learning What Was Never Taught  (Germany)

** Tepilit Ole Saitoti, The Initiation of a Massai Warrior  (Kenya)

Douchan Gersi, Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters.  (Borneo)

Guanlong Cao, Chopsticks  (China)

** Meeta Kaur, Journey by Inner Light  (India/US)

Connecting Cultures

3. How Culture Shapes Gender Roles.

** Eugene R. August, Real Men Don’t, or Anti-Male Bias in English

Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman.

Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea, A Look Behind the Veil.  (Saudi Arabia)

Serena Nanda, Arranging a Marriage in India.  (India)

** Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (Iran)

** Don Kulick and Thais Machado-Borges, Leaky (Brazil)

** Paul Monette, Becoming a Man

Shirley Saad, Amina (short story) (Lebanon)

Connecting Cultures


4. Working Lives

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel- and- Dimed.

** Tamara Draut, Generation Debt

Victor Villaseñor, Rain of Gold.  (Mexico)

Helena Norberg-Hodge, Learning from Ladakh (India)

Tomoyuki Iwashita, Why I Quit the Company  (Japan)

** Hanan Al-Shaykh, What We Think of America  (Lebanon/US)

** A. J. Jacobs, My Outsourced Life (US/India)

Connecting Cultures



5. Race, Class, and Caste.

Itabari Njeri, What’s In a Name?

Mary Crow Dog, Civilize Them with a Stick.

Kate Chopin, Desiree’s Baby (Short Story)

Richard Rodriguez, On Becoming a Chicano

Viramma, A Pariah’s Life  (India)

** Kim Foote, Oburoni No More (Ghana)

** Immaculee Ilibagaza, Left to Tell (Rwanda)

Connecting Cultures

6. Geo-political Issues

** Mike Marquese, Global Sports, American Sports

Jeremy Rifkin, Big, Bad Beef

Stephen Chapman, The Prisoner's Dilemma.  (Pakistan)

Panos Ioannides, Gregory (Short Story)  (Cyprus)

** Greg Campbell, Blood Diamonds (Sierra Leone)

** Mike Davis, Poor Man’s Air Force

Ngûg) Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind  (Kenya)

** Alan M. Dershowitz, Why Fear National ID Cards?

** William Safire, The Threat of the National ID

Connecting Cultures



7. Experiencing a Different Culture

** Ralph Linton, One Hundred Percent American

Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, Individualism as an American Cultural Value. (Thailand/US)

Gino del Guercio, The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead  (Haiti)

David R. Counts, Too Many Bananas.  (New Guinea)

** Kathleen Lee, The Scent of Two Cities (Viet-Nam)

** Laura Bohannan, Shakespeare in the Bush (West Africa)


8. Customs, Rituals, and Values

** Philip Slater, Want-Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness

Harold Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

Octavio Paz, Fiesta.  (Mexico)

** Napoleon A. Chagnon, Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo (Brazil)

** Alifa Rifaat, An Incident in the Ghoboshi Household (short story) (Egypt)

Valerie Steele and John S. Major, China Chic: East Meets West (China)

 

 

Pronunciation Key
Credits
Search Terms Index
Geographical Index.

APPENDIX:  Avoiding Plagiarism
Index of Authors and Titles

    The best of all possible worlds!  This truly global multicultural reader features almost 60 contemporary selections by internationally acclaimed authors from 22 countries. 

     

    These compelling readings explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender, and nationality, challenging students to compare their experiences with those of others in radically different cultural circumstances. Eight thematic chapters explore cultural perspectives on human experiences around the globe: family life, adolescent relationships, gender roles, work and the environment, race and class conflicts, social and political issues, “the other,” and a new chapter on customs, rituals, and values.

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Hirschberg/Hirschberg
One World, Many Cultures, Seventh Edition

The best of all possible worlds! This truly global multicultural reader features contemporary selections by over sixty internationally acclaimed authors from twenty-six countries.

These compelling readings, which explore cultural differences in relation to race, class, gender and nationality, challenge you to compare your experiences with those of others in radically different cultural circumstances. Eight thematic chapters explore cultural perspectives on human experiences around the globe: family life; adolescent relationships; gender roles; work, race and class conflicts; customs, rituals and values.

In this new edition, twenty-seven new readings–close to half the book–provide timely reflections on the issues of today, and new chapters on Geopolitical Issues (Chapter 6) and Experiencing A Different Culture (Chapter 7) challenge the basic assumptions of U.S. culture and explore what it means to be “the other” in a variety of cultures.

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