One World, Many Cultures Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
	Antidisestablishmentarianism	18
	Childhood in Russia	26
	Birth Ceremonies	36
	The Marriage Go-Round	47
	Arranging a Marriage in India	58
	Amina	67
	Remembering Lobo	71
	The Mbuti Pygmies	75
	Reunion	81
	The Letter 'A'	89
	The Initiation of a Maasai Warrior	96
	Circumcision of Girls	107
	The Persian Carpet	121
	The Names	127
	You're Short, Besides!	131
	The Falling Girl	139
	Melba, Mallinen and me	145
	The Flesh and the Devil	159
	The Myth of the Latin Woman	167
	Her Three Days	173
	Talk in the Intimate Relationship	187
	Visualizing the Disabled Body	198
	What Are Homosexuals For?	207
	One Night Stands	218
	Confessions of a Fast Woman	225
	The Village Goldsmith	231
	Radiation Expert	239
	Lessons	244
	In the Mirror	252
	Ron Maydon	261
	Misguided 'Guide'	267
	A Brief History of Capitalism	278
	Ornamental Cookery	286
	What Is Poverty?	289
	The Button	294
	The Lords of Creation	301
	A Small Place	318
	Civilize Them with a Stick	327
	The Odour of the Other	335
	Paper	346
	We Have Our State	357
	The Guest	363
	The Balkan Express	376
	Decolonising the Mind	381
	The Eyes of Vietnam	391
	The Red Guards	401
	The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband	411
	Gregory	420
	Reflections on Exile	430
	The Gypsies	437
	Miami: The Cuban Presence	452
	Yearning to Breathe Free	463
	Border Story	474
	Individualism as an American Cultural Value	488
	Cervicide	496
	The Power of Meat	503
	Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomamo	514
	To Live in Two Worlds	530
	Home	540
	The Language of Clothes	549
	Too Many Bananas	556
	The Day of the Dead	564
	Cairo Is a Small City	571
	The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead	581
	Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective	590
	Looking for a Rain God	602
	My Country and People	607
	Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu	618
	Half a Day	626
	Blessings	631
	Deliverance	636
	Rhetorical Index	647
	Geographical Index	653
	Acknowledgments	657
	Pronunciation Key to Names and Places	663
	Index of Authors and Titles	665