One World, Many Cultures, 7th Edition

A global multicultural reader featuring contemporary selections by sixty one authors from twenty six countries.

* 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