Examines European and non-European cultural positions in terms of subjectivity, a postmodern concept, which eventually promotes ethics by using the nature of self in relation to the "other." Challenges the hierarchical distinction of European subjectivities and non-European subjectivities, exploring how to overcome that hierarchical…

Presents a close reading of one chapter of the only guidebook for physicians about breast feeding. Notes that the medical discussion of the psychological aspects of breast feeding articulates conflicting ideological views of women and their place in society. Suggests medicine reflects and contributes to a cultural context ambivalent about women's…

Examines how counselors must assess a Native American client's level of acculturation rather than make assumptions based on the limited information offered by appearance or other personal characteristics. Presents the Native American Acculturation Scale as an operationalized means of formally or informally assessing a Native American client's…

The author, who moved from Vietnam to the United States, relates the challenges of adjusting to a new culture. Amidst many adversities, she received support from her teachers and family that enabled her to overcome past trauma and feelings of low self worth. (Author)

Discusses sociopolitical, career access, and cultural issues faced by African Americans. Describes appropriate career-counseling techniques, including sociocultural strategies, a systems approach to career decision making, and group interventions. (SK)

Explores career issues in a case study of a Chinese immigrant, including cultural issues affecting career counseling. Addresses the need for culturally sensitive skills for both personal counseling and career counseling. (SK)

Compares two versions written by Monteiro Lobato about Hans Staden's report of his captivity among the Brazilian Tupinamba Indians. (PA)

Focuses on the use of cultural analysis, or the ethnographic approach, as a qualitative research methodology to study an academic computing center. The study was conducted to understand the culture of computing professionals and to assist librarians in developing ways in which the two groups of professionals can work together. (Author/LRW)

Provides some background on the use of magical language in technical contexts, gives examples of magical discourse in technology advertisements and newsmagazine articles, and proposes a technical communication pedagogy of media analysis. Notes that the proposed pedagogy involves students conducting diagnostic critiques of media texts and affords…

Muses on the reasons for a "director's cut" of the 1969 Soviet film "The Color of Pomegranates," produced after the official version had initially been heavily reedited. Offers historical background on the film. States that it places unusual demands on its audiences, especially because of its density of texture and its…

Places the epistemology of the mystical strain of Jewish rhetoric embedded in the Kabbalah within the philosophical context of Platonic and sophistic rhetorics. Suggests that this contextualization helps to show the epistemological relationship between this Jewish rhetoric and these other rhetorics and to delineate the distinctive epistemology of…

Examines the rhetorical difficulties in describing mystical or religious experiences in an age skeptical of the transcendent and critical in terms of how language conveys meaning. Looks specifically at Patricia Hampl's language and examines a question raised by William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein: what difference did the mystical experiences…

States that Moslem culture heavily influences much of Middle Eastern practice, and that contemporary public relations literature indicates that "ethical" public relations practices embrace a "two-way symmetrical" model. Describes a counterthesis that contends that public relations is culturally relative in both theories and…

The term "polylogues" refers to interactions among individuals and groups in social situations in which social learning takes place and language and culture are created. They can be a way of integrating newcomers into a culture. (SK)

Nine nurses who had undergone cultural immersion experiences in college described the core dimension as learning to care. Strategies included social support and learning to communicate, live, and think differently. Immersion resulted in changed values, improved communication skills, and personal and professional growth. (Contains 37 references.)…