Distant mirrors : : America as a foreign culture / [electronic resource] / edited by Philip R. DeVita, James D. Armstrong.. — Belmont, Calif. : : Wadsworth Pub. Co.,, c1993 [i.e. 1992]. — viii, 145 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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-