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Contents

Contents by concept

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgements

1The grammar of culture

Particular social and political structures

Underlying universal cultural processes

Particular cultural products

Cultural negotiation

How the grammar is used throughout the book

Categories of cultural action

Further reference

2Cultural practices

Foreigners and newcomers

Examples and factors

Anna visiting Beatrice’s family

Being successful

Global trajectory

Dealing with being Othered

Dima and Christoff: future in-laws

Dima and Christoff: the issue with Facebook

Misunderstanding and Othering

Negative understanding: prejudice and easy answers

The problem with ‘values’

Seductive statements about culture

Positive understanding: ...

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