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Engaging cultural differences : the multicultural challenge in liberal democracies / Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus, editors.

Contributor(s): Shweder, Richard A | Minow, Martha, 1954- | Markus, Hazel Rose
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2002Description: xiv, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0871547910 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Multiculturalism | Multiculturalism -- Case studies | TolerationDDC classification: 306 LOC classification: HM1271 | .E5 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Engaging cultural differences / Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus -- Everything you ever wanted to know about assimilation but were afraid to ask / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco -- Living with multiculturalism: universalism and particularism in an Indian historical context / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- Legislating religious freedom: Muslim challenges to the relationship between church and state in Germany and France / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Civilizing the natives: customary marriage in post-apartheid South Africa / David L. Chambers -- Immigrants, agency, and allegiance: some notes from anthropology and from law / Jane Maslow Cohen and Caroline Bledsoe -- Citizenship on trial: Nadia's case / Unni Wikan -- Accommodation and coherence: in search of a general theory for adjudicating claims of faith, conscience, and culture / Arthur N. Eisenberg -- Free exercise of culture: some doubts and distinctions / Lawrence G. Sager -- Culture of property / Nomi Stolzenberg.
In defense of culture in the courtroom / Alison Dundes Renteln -- "What about female genital mutilation?" and why understanding culture matters in the first place / Richard A. Shweder -- About women, about culture: about them, about us / Martha Minow -- Between nationalism and feminism: indigenous women, community, and state / Maivân Clech Lâm -- Neither victim nor rebel: feminism and the morality of gender and family life in a Hindu temple town / Usha Menon -- Circumcision debates and asylum cases: intersecting arenas, contested values, and tangled webs / Corinne A. Kratz -- From skepticism to embrace: human rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999 / Karen Engle -- Cultural models of diversity in America : the psychology of difference and inclusion / Victoria C. Plaut -- Micropolitics of identity-difference: recognition and accommodation in everyday life / Austin Sarat -- Plural society and interethnic relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson -- Freedom of speech and freedom of silence: an analysis of talking as a cultural practice / Heejung S. Kim and Hazel Rose Markus -- Color blindness as a barrier to inclusion: assimilation and nonimmigrant minorities / Hazel Rose Markus, Claude M. Steele, and Dorothy M. Steele.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction, Engaging cultural differences / Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus -- Everything you ever wanted to know about assimilation but were afraid to ask / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco -- Living with multiculturalism: universalism and particularism in an Indian historical context / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- Legislating religious freedom: Muslim challenges to the relationship between church and state in Germany and France / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Civilizing the natives: customary marriage in post-apartheid South Africa / David L. Chambers -- Immigrants, agency, and allegiance: some notes from anthropology and from law / Jane Maslow Cohen and Caroline Bledsoe -- Citizenship on trial: Nadia's case / Unni Wikan -- Accommodation and coherence: in search of a general theory for adjudicating claims of faith, conscience, and culture / Arthur N. Eisenberg -- Free exercise of culture: some doubts and distinctions / Lawrence G. Sager -- Culture of property / Nomi Stolzenberg.

In defense of culture in the courtroom / Alison Dundes Renteln -- "What about female genital mutilation?" and why understanding culture matters in the first place / Richard A. Shweder -- About women, about culture: about them, about us / Martha Minow -- Between nationalism and feminism: indigenous women, community, and state / Maivân Clech Lâm -- Neither victim nor rebel: feminism and the morality of gender and family life in a Hindu temple town / Usha Menon -- Circumcision debates and asylum cases: intersecting arenas, contested values, and tangled webs / Corinne A. Kratz -- From skepticism to embrace: human rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999 / Karen Engle -- Cultural models of diversity in America : the psychology of difference and inclusion / Victoria C. Plaut -- Micropolitics of identity-difference: recognition and accommodation in everyday life / Austin Sarat -- Plural society and interethnic relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson -- Freedom of speech and freedom of silence: an analysis of talking as a cultural practice / Heejung S. Kim and Hazel Rose Markus -- Color blindness as a barrier to inclusion: assimilation and nonimmigrant minorities / Hazel Rose Markus, Claude M. Steele, and Dorothy M. Steele.

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