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The Emerging New Human Being, The Culture-In-The-Self, And Ahp's New Multidimensional Intercultural Initiative, Carroy U. Ferguson

Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.

The emerging New Human Being will need to explore and come to terms with a phenomenon, operating deeply, uniquely, and diversely at a core level of all human beings on the planet. I call this phenomenon the “culture-in-the-Self,” a term coined some years ago by cofounders of Interculture Inc. What we commonly think of as culture is just the surface of this phenomenon, often appearing outwardly in the diverse “forms” of cultural scripts, beliefs, values, behaviors, and customs). I want to call attention to what goes on beneath surface culture(s), and how AHP intends to play a primary role in …

Failed Families And Quiet Individualism: Domestic Abuse And Women's Strategies Of Resistance In Urban Taiwan, Marc L. Moskowitz

Marc L. Moskowitz

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"They Are Beginning To Learn The Use Of Tobacco": Cultural Context And The Creation Of A Passion In Colonial Papua New Guinea, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

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Cultural Displays And Tourism In Africa And The Americas, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

Kuku--"God Of The Motuites": European Tobacco In Colonial New Guinea, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

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From Ethnographer To Comparativist And Back Again, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

"As I sat one night in 1972 during an 'umana ceremony in the men's house of a hamlet in Ndumba, a community in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, I reflected on how fortunate I was."

"No Tobacco, No Hallelujah": Missions And The Early History Of Tobacco In Eastern Papua, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

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Family Change And The Life Course In Japan, Susan Long

Susan O Long

This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines, introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family change, and summarizes research results in areas such as infanticide, preindustrial mobility, family size and structure, family relations, mate selection, and the elderly. Summaries of Japanese studies and translated tables and graphs are integrated with materials from relevant English language publications from the perspective of life course theory. The book points out difficulties in cross-cultural research but stresses the vital contributions of such insights for the …