Annotated Bibliography of Articles about the American Culture

The authors purpose Philip DeVita and James Armstrong, the authors of this collection, decided to produce this work for the purpose of understanding ourselves (the title of the introductory remarks). They start by pointing out the remarkable freshness Alexis de Tocquevilles observation of America in the mid-19th century offered at the time. They note that concerns for understanding the other have always interested anthropologists. And this collection, as they argue, is an attempt to understand America as the other by looking at American culture, society, politics, intellectual traditions, and attitudes from the perspectives of outsiders. DeVita and Armstrong emphasize that it is hard for a social scientist to fully understand the uniqueness and strangeness of ones culture. Growing up within the culture means accepting ones cultural assumptions for granted. 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