Susan Debra Blum's Books

My Word!

Plagiarism and College Culture

By: Susan D. Blum

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My Word!

Plagiarism and College Culture

By: Susan D. Blum

Blum . . . brings great care and compassion to her discussion of plagiarism. She generously draws on student interview segments throughout "My Word!" to illuminate today's campus climate--Cathy Small, author "My Freshman Year.

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197

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Cornell University Press

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ISBN 10

0801447631

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9780801447631

Portraits of "primitives"

Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation

By: Susan Debra Blum

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Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation

By: Susan Debra Blum

Ethnicity is a highly politicized issue in contemporary China. Twentieth-century nation-building has been intimately involved with classification of ChinaOs fifty-five ethnic minorities and with fostering harmony and unity among nationalities. Officially sanctioned social science classifies the majority group, the so-called Han, at the pinnacle of modernization and civilization and most other groups as Oprimitive.O In post-socialist China, popular conceptions of self, person, and nation intersect with political and scholarly concerns with identity, sometimes contradicting them and sometimes reinforcing them. In Portraits of OPrimitives, O Susan D. Blum explores how Han in the city of Kunming, in southwest China, regard ethnic minorities and, by extension, themselves. She sketches Oportraits, O or cognitive prototypes, of ethnic groups in a variety of contexts, explaining the perceived visibility of each group (which almost never correlates with size of population). Ideas of OHannessO can be understood in part through Han desire to identify unique characteristics in ethnic minorities and also through Han celebration of the differences that distance minorities. The book considers questions of identity, alterity, and self in the context of a complex nation-state, employing methods from linguistic anthropology and psychological anthropology, as well as other forms of cultural analysis. Providing nuanced views of relationships among political, scholarly, and popular models of identity, this book will be an invaluable guide for those working in China studies, anthropology, and ethnic studies.

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262

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

0742500926

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9780742500921

Lies that Bind

Chinese Truth, Other Truths

By: Susan Debra Blum

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Lies that Bind

Chinese Truth, Other Truths

By: Susan Debra Blum

This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum examines rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty. She argues that public lying is evaluated within Chinese society by culturally specific moral values. Chinese, for example, might emphasize the consequences of speech, Americans the absolute truthfulness. But many Americans also excel in manipulation of language, yet find a simultaneous moral absolutism opposed to lying in any form. Blum considers Japanese and Jewish traditions as well, which similarly struggle to control the boundaries of honesty.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742554058

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9780742554054

Lies that Bind

Chinese Truth, Other Truths

By: Susan Debra Blum

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Chinese Truth, Other Truths

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My Word!

My Word!

Portraits of "primitives"

Portraits of "primitives"

Lies that Bind

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