Distant mirrors : America as a foreign culture / edited by Philip R. DeVita, James D. Armstrong.

Includes bibliographical references.

One hundred percent American / Ralph Linton -- American cultural configuration / Lowell D. Holmes and Ellen Rhoads -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Professor Widjojo goes to Koktel Parti / Weston LaBarre -- Outsider's view of American culture / Janusz L. Mucha -- Growing up American: doing the right thing / Amparo B. Ojeda -- My American glasses / Francisco Martins Ramos -- American graffiti: curious derivatives of individualism / Jin K. Kim -- Young, the rich, and the famous: individualism as an American cultural value / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel -- America and I / Herve Varenne -- Encounters wiht the elderly in America / Yohko Tsuji -- Neighborly strangers / Honggang Yang -- Pais de mis suenos: reflections on ethinc labels, dichotomies, and ritual interactions / Gisela Ernst -- Giving, withholding, and meeting midway: a poet's ethnography / Saleem Peeradina -- Russian teacher in America / Andrei Toom -- First impressions: diary of a French anthropologist in New York City / Francoise Dussart -- Life and cultures: the test of real participant observation / E.L. Cerroni-Long -- Learning to hug: an English anthropologist's experience in North America / Geoffrey Hunt -- European anthropologist's personal ethnographic impressions of the United States / Emanuel J. Drechsel.