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Summary: Get a jolt of culture shock!
Review: Next best thing to actual travelling. Wonderful book and the closest thing I've found to my Peace Corps experience. When my friends ask me to describe my experience, I tell them to read this. Makes you see Americans from a very different perspective!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Reading GO AND COME BACK is a life-changing experience! When you're done, nothing looks the same. I for one am grateful to Ms. Abelove for opening my eyes. Through her, I saw our world, our developed modern world, through fresh eyes. I learned that we're selfish, even when we mean to be generous. I met people who understand utterly how to accept what comes. I learned from the inside about people completely different from me--not idealized, but revealed, graces and warts. And I learned through a wonderful story that sometimes made me sad, but more often made me laugh and gasp in happy amazement.
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Summary: Go and Come Back is an excellent read
Review: This book is an entertaining story of two female anthropologists from New York who live with and study a tribe in a Peruvian jungle village. Margarita will study the agriculture in the village and Joanna will study the children of the village. Together, they discover as much about themselves as they do about the villagers. You will learn about yourself also. Very entertaining and insightful!
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Summary: ewwwwwwwwwww
Review: this book was too graphic for people of our young age
it talked about PERSONAL things and it was really gross.
but we read it anyways because were very mature young ladies, amber and me, and besides the icky details, we liked it
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Summary: ewwwwwwwwwww
Review: this book was too graphic for people of our young age
it talked about PERSONAL things and it was really gross.
but we read it anyways because were very mature young ladies, amber and me, and besides the icky details, we liked it
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Summary: See things from a different perspective
Review: This excellent book is the story of two American anthropologists who went to live with a tribe in Peru. One of the main characters is a young girl who is trying to raise an adopted baby and becomes friends with the anthropologists. The story shows all of the cultural differences and misunderstandings that arose between the anthropologists and the people of the village because they had different values and ideas about how people should behave. The book does a good job of showing how people of one culture can try to do things that they see as polite and kind and can be perceived by people of a different culture as stingy or mean. It is challenging to readers because it helps them think about what is important to them and how that is expressed in what they do. It helped me see ways that my actions are not really consistent with what I say is important to me. It also gave me a good sense of some of the basic difficulties and joys of living in a different culture. One caution: if you would be offended by open talk about sex, this book is not for you. It shows a culture in which sex is discussed openly and people tell children more about it than in the U.S.
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Summary: See things from a different perspective
Review: This excellent book is the story of two American anthropologists who went to live with a tribe in Peru. One of the main characters is a young girl who is trying to raise an adopted baby and becomes friends with the anthropologists. The story shows all of the cultural differences and misunderstandings that arose between the anthropologists and the people of the village because they had different values and ideas about how people should behave. The book does a good job of showing how people of one culture can try to do things that they see as polite and kind and can be perceived by people of a different culture as stingy or mean. It is challenging to readers because it helps them think about what is important to them and how that is expressed in what they do. It helped me see ways that my actions are not really consistent with what I say is important to me. It also gave me a good sense of some of the basic difficulties and joys of living in a different culture. One caution: if you would be offended by open talk about sex, this book is not for you. It shows a culture in which sex is discussed openly and people tell children more about it than in the U.S.
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Summary: There is no word for good-bye
Review: This wonderful story is told in the first person narrative of Alicia, a teenaged girl in a small village in the Amazonion jungle of Peru. Two anthropologists from New York City come to observe and take notes for an entire year on the way of life of the Isabo people. Margarita is there to study the village agriculture and Joanna is to study the children. Alicia thinks that these two women are stingy because they do not follow the Isabo's custom of sharing all their food with everyone in the village immediately. The two anthropologists are also perceived as being unclean and unsociable because they only bathe once a day and relieve themselves in private. The humorous tone of this book kept the pace moving. The cultural differences are many and Alicia explains things in a matter of fact way, such as the Isabo's views on sex compared to the two American anthropologists...married women have boyfriends, teenagers have sex and couples invent reasons to slip off in the bushes. As the year progresses the two women are taught about customs and traditions of the tribe. They also learn about the subtleties of the language and the fact that there is no word for good-bye in Isabo. When two people take leave of each other, they say "Catanhue", which means go and come back. I enjoyed the differences in both cultures and feel this was a wonderful way to learn about anthropology in the Amazon jungle.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: What a great way to teach sociology! This is a great book with vivid details and a great cultural perspective.
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