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One World, Many Cultures, 6/E
Stuart Hirschberg, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, Newark
Terry Hirschberg

ISBN-10: 0321355644
ISBN-13: 9780321355645

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 576 pp
Published: 12/13/2005

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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.

  • Nine distinguished short stories are integrated with 50 non-fiction selections, including essays, autobiographies, memoirs, and a speech.  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 bywriters 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, and a map of the world highlighting the countries mentioned in the text, and the Subject Index now includes Internet search terms for each author and selection.
  • 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-three selections new to this edition include short works of fiction by John Cheever and Shirley Saad and represent a global community of authors.  Many selections have never been previously anthologized.

  • U.S. culture is viewed by 14 newly represented American writers, including Mary Brave Bird, Temple Grandin, Barbara Kantrowitz, Richard Rodriguez, Eric Schlosser, Amy Tan, Deborah Tannen, and others.  

  • A new introductory section, Writing Your Essay, emphasizes the rhetorical modes and argumentation.

  • 17 new illustrations, including cartoons, photographs, and other images, enhance the impact of the themes.

  • A Rhetorical Contents provides instructors with flexibility of approach.

  • An expanded Ch. 4 includes environmental issues, and Ch. 6 now includes social issues in America.

  • Websites for further research are included in new end-of-selection activities called Extending Viewpoints through Writing and Research.

* 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

* John Cheever, Reunion (Short Story)

* Fritz Peters, Boyhood with Gurdjieff

* Steve Sailer, Cousin Marriage Conundrum

Gayatri Devi, A Princess Remembers

Daniela Deane, The Little Emperors

Connecting Cultures

2. Turning Points

Sucheng Chan, You're Short, Besides!

Christy Brown, The Letter 'A'

Hanan al-Shaykh, The Persian Carpet (Short Story)

* Sabine Reichel, Learning What Was Never Taught

Douchan Gersi, Initiated into an Iban Tribe of Headhunters

* Guanlong Cao, Chopsticks

* Germaine Greer, One Man’s Mutilation Is Another Man’s Beautification

Connecting Cultures

3. How Culture Shapes Gender Roles

Susan Bordo, Never Just Pictures

* Barbara Kantrowitz, The New Face of Marriage

Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman

Nawal El Saadawi, The Circumcision of Girls

* Shirley Saad, Amina (Short Story)

Elizabeth W. Fernea and Robert A. Fernea, A Look Behind the Veil

Serena Nanda, Arranging a Marriage in India

* Nicholas Bornoff, The Marriage Go-Round

Connecting Cultures

4. Work and the Environment

* Deborah Tannen, Ritual Fighting

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel- and- Dimed

*Gerald W. Haslam, The Water Game

Victor Villaseñor, Rain of Gold.

*Helena Norberg-Hodge, Learning from Ladakh

Tomoyuki Iwashita, Why I Quit the Company

Catherine Lim, Paper (Short Story)

Connecting Cultures

5. Race, Class, and Caste.

*Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream

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

Raymonde Carroll, Sex, Money, and Success

Mahdokht Kashkuli, The Button (Short Story)

Viramma, A Pariah’s Life

Connecting Cultures

6. Social and Political Issues

*Philip Slater, Want-Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness

*Jeremy Rifkin, Big, Bad Beef

*Eric Schlosser, Kid Kustomers

Luis Sepulveda, Daisy

Stephen Chapman, The Prisoner's Dilemma

Panos Ioannides, Gregory (Short Story)

Rae Yang, At the Center of the Storm.

Connecting Cultures

7. The Other

*Temple Grandin, Thinking in Pictures

Gloria Anzaldúa, Cervicide (Short Story)

Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, Individualism as an American Cultural Value

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

Ngugi Thiong’o, Decolonising the Mind

*Kyoko Mori, Polite Lies

David R. Counts, Too Many Bananas

Connecting Cultures

8. Customs, Rituals, and Values

*Harold Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

*Mary Brave Bird, The Granddaddy of Them All

*Jennifer Fisher, Nutcracker Nation

Octavio Paz, Fiesta

*Richard Keller Simon, The Shopping Mall and the Formal Garden

Nabil Gorgy, Cairo Is a Small City (Short Story)

Liza Dalby, Kimono

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

Connecting Cultures

Pronunciation Key

Credits

Search Terms Index


Geographical Index

Index of Authors and Titles

    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.

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