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Transforming Communication About Culture includes thought-provoking contributions about the ways in which people's lives and experiences across the globe are being transformed by technological changes, media institutions, political ideologies, and social forces.
Traveling Identities in Joking Performances: Peril and Play in an Arab-American Community
Traveling Identities in Joking Performances: Peril and Play in an Arab-American Community
Almost anything can happen in the fictional world of joking, and thus it happens that members of Western Apache communities sometimes step back from the less malleable realm of everyday life and transform themselves into Anglo-Americans through the performance of carefully crafted imitations.
Meaning in any face-to-face encounter is always negotiable; it is discovering the grounds for negotiation that requires the participants’ skill.
Arab-Americans living in urban centers in the United States travel in and through several worlds with at least two sets of cultural ...
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