A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience
Beneath the Surface
$48.86
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2010
Summary
When we leave and travel abroad, for pleasure or for business, we make a choice: to have a superficial “airport experience” at our destination, or to appreciate the hidden culture beneath the surface. A Beginner’s Guide to the Deep Culture Experience proposes a deep culture journey, encouraging travelers to pursue a meaningful cross-cultural experience.
Sharing anthropologist Edward Hall’s conviction that becoming aware of our unconscious cultural programming is a transcendental chall…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780984247103 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0984247106 |
| Author: | Joseph Shaules |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Business |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2010 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 142mm x 13mm |
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This is a beautiful book-thoughtful, insightful, personal, practical. A perfect companion for the serious traveler, student abroad or expatriate traveling on the deepest cultural journey.
Indispensable to those seeking to dig beneath the surface to find out why people in other countries behave as they do. Nobody does this sort of thing as well as Joseph Shaules. - Robert Whiting, author of Tokyo Underworld
This is a beautiful book-thoughtful, insightful, personal, practical. A perfect companion for the serious traveler, student abroad or expatriate traveling on the deepest cultural journey. - John Condon, Regents’ Professor of Communication, University of New Mexico; author of With Respect to the JapaneseBeyond shedding fresh light on intercultural perspectives, A Beginner’s Guide to the Deep Culture Experience is a profound search for what makes us human. A highly recommended read for anyone wanting to learn more about the patterns of meaning that move us on cultural and individual levels.About The Author
Joseph Shaules
Joseph Shaules, PhD, has worked in intercultural education in Japan, Mexico, and Europe for more than twenty-five years. He is the director of the Japan Intercultural Institute (JII) and teaches at the Rikkyo College of Business and the Keio University International Center. Shaules is a co-presenter on the NHK Television program “Nyuusu de Eikaiwa.” He is also the Japan specialist for a consulting and training company based in Germany. He is the author of several books including A Beginner’s Guide to the Deep Culture Experience also published by Intercultural Press. He lives in Tokyo.
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