Download or read book CultureShock Borneo written by Heidi Munan and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CultureShock! Borneo gives you a fun-filled and thorough crash course on how to live and work in this slice of the East. Packed with useful and insightful tips, this book will guide you on how to deal with cultural barriers, relate with the various racial groups and fit into the intricate society. Learn how weddings, births and funerals are observed by the different ethnic groups and how you can participate meaningfully in them. Understand the strong family bonds in most Borneo families and how they affect all areas of life, starting with extremely complicated name system and forms of address. This book also covers practical matters such as finding a suitable home and understanding the work

Download or read book Culture Shock written by Heidi Munan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cultureshock Borneo written by Heidi Munan and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CultureShock! Borneo gives you a fun-filled and thorough crash course on how to live and work in this slice of the East. Packed with useful and insightful tips, this book will guide you on how to deal with cultural barriers, relate with the various groups, and fit into the intricate society. Learn how weddings, births, and funerals are observed by the different ethnic groups and how you can participate meaningfully in them. Understand the strong family bonds in most Borneo families and how they affect all areas of life, starting with the extremely complicated name system and forms of address. This book also covers practical matters such as finding a suitable home and understanding the work environment. CultureShock! Borneo is the essential guide that will benefit anyone who wants to survive and succeed in the exotic land of Borneo. Book jacket.

Download or read book CultureShock Malaysia written by Heidi Munan and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Borneo written by Heidi Munan and published by Culture Shock!. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CultureShock! Borneo gives you a fun-filled and thorough crash course on how to live and work in this slice of the East. Packed with useful and insightful tips Insights into the people and their culture and traditions. Advise on adapting into the local environment. Essential information on the coutnry's history, traditions, beliefs, etiquette, cusine and leisure activities. Suggestions on how to get the most out of the travel experience. Linguistic help and hints on how to learn the language and do business. A useful list of foreign words and phrases and a conprehensive resource guide. A glossary books for further reading and a list of interesting websites for additonal reference. Lively and humorous illustrations that capture the essence of the text. A sectionof full colour images that give a flavour of the destination. CultureShock! Borneogives you a fun-filled and thorough crash course on how to live and work in this slice of the East. Packed with useful and insightful tips, this book will guide you on how to deal with cultural barriers, relate with the various racial groups and fit into the intricate society. Learn how weddings, births and funerals are observed by the different ethnic groups and how you can participate meaningfully in them. Understand the strong family bonds in most Borneo families and how they affect all areas of life, starting with extremely complicated name system and forms of address. This book also covers practical matters such as finding a suitable home and understanding the work

Download or read book Bradt Travel Guide Borneo written by Tamara Thiessen and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borneo's biodiversity is among the richest in the world.The first guide to focus on Malaysian Borneo and Brunei, this book gives full details on where and how to see the island's colourful flora and fauna. Tropical rainforest and rivers cover over 70% ofMalaysian Borneo, and this lush habitat is home to hundreds of unique species, from the jelly green snake and bearded pig to the proboscis monkey. Trek through one of the region's national parks or catch a glimpse of an orang-utan. Traditional rural lifestyles,tribal influences and ethnic variety also offer the visitor a rewarding cultural experience; take part in island festivities, spend the night in a longhouse or shop in the bustling markets. Borneo can provide for adventure travellers, divers and even sunbathers.Over 27,000 UK visitors travelled to Borneo in 2007, up 10% on the previous year.

Download or read book Borneo Studies in History Society and Culture written by Victor T. King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book is the first major review of what has been achieved in Borneo Studies to date. Chapters in this book situate research on Borneo within the general disciplinary fields of the social sciences, with the weight of attention devoted to anthropological research and related fields such as development studies, gender studies, environmental studies, social policy studies and cultural studies. Some of the chapters in this book are extended versions of presentations at the Borneo Research Council’s international conference hosted by Universiti Brunei Darussalam in June 2012 and a Borneo Studies workshop organised in Brunei in 2012. The volume examines some of the major debates and controversies in Borneo Studies, including those which have served to connect post-war research on Borneo to wider scholarship. It also assesses some of the more recent contributions and interests of locally based researchers in universities and other institutions in Borneo itself. The major strength of the book is the inclusion of a substantial amount of research undertaken by scholars working and teaching within the Southeast Asian region. In particular there is an examination of research materials published in the vernacular, notably the outpouring of work published in Indonesian by the Institut Dayakologi in Pontianak. In doing so, the book also addresses the urgent matters which have not received the attention they deserve, specifically subjects, themes and issues that have already been covered but require further contemplation, elaboration and research, and the scope for disciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration in Borneo Studies. The book is a valuable resource and reference work for students and researchers interested in social science scholarship on Borneo, and for those with wider interests in Indonesia and Malaysia, and in the Southeast Asian region.

Download or read book Borneo written by Tamara Thiessen and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the steamy highlands and sapphire watered islands of Sabah and Sarawak, to the mesmerising mosques and mysticism of the Sultanate of Brunei, the island of Borneo is a wonder world of colourful tribal cultures, exotic rainforest creatures. Straddling the Equator, and swept in by various Seas and Straits, it is home to the orang-utan, long-nosed beer-bellied proboscis monkeys, and otherworldly carnivorous plants straight out of Lord of the Rings. The latest edition of the Bradt Travel Guide to Borneo provides fully updated insider information for touring the island including regional capitals, rural outposts and National Parks.

Download or read book Culture and Identity written by Victor T. King and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Borneo written by Bernard Sellato and published by Sun Tree Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanting art, intricate forms and symbols, and gorgeous painted and woven patterns of the southeast-Asian island of Borneo reflect the equatorial island's lavish environment and lush rhythms that have inspired their rich cultural heritage and elicited the admiration of scholars and travelers worldwide.

Download or read book Working Across Cultures written by John Hooker and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to adapting and thriving within unfamiliar cultural settings challenges the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the etiquette level, distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures while considering the roles of such factors as competition, security, and lifestyle. (Social Science)

Download or read book Culture Shock written by Heidi Munan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are conducting business, traveling for pleasure, or even relocating abroad, one mistake with customs or etiquette can leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth. International travelers, now more than ever, are not just individuals from the United States, but ambassadors and impression makers for the country as a whole.Newly updated, redesigned, and resized for maximum shelf appeal for travelers of all ages, Culture Shock! country and city guides make up the most complete reference series for customs and etiquette you can find. These are not just travel guides; these are guides for a way of life.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Spirits and Ghosts in World Mythology written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the anomalous phenomenon reported, ghost sightings are by far the most common. The words "ghost" and "spirit" are used interchangeably in American English but in other cultures the lingering souls of the departed are not to be confused with ancestral spirits, demonic spirits, numens or poltergeists. This encyclopedia lists hundreds of entities of the spirit realm--from aatxe to zuzeca--from world mythology and folklore.

Download or read book The Peoples of Borneo written by Victor King and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-08-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borneo, the third largest island in the world, is still sparsely populated, but it has a remarkable ethnic diversity. This book examines that diversity - in economic and social life, political organization, religion, worldview and material culture - and shows that, beneath these variations, there are common social and cultural features that can be traced back to the Austronesian-speaking migrants who first settled the island about 4,500 years ago. The processes of historical differentiation from these common roots are considered by describing local human adaptations to the environment, and the external influences on the Bornean peoples, from places as far away as China, India, the Middle East and Europe. Besides its cultural diversity and the historical reasons for it, there are two dominant themes in the literature on Borneo: first, European popular images of the island and its peoples, which tend to dwell on exotic customs and practices, such as headhunting and piracy; and, second, the pervasive influence of the rainforest on Bornean ways of life. The book provides a comprehensive view of traditional Bornean societies and cultures, setting its seemingly exotic institutions in their proper context, and documenting the recent challenge to traditional ways of life posed by modernization, the commercialization of agriculture, logging and forest clearance, resettlement and land development.

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Download or read book Serving Library Users from Asia written by John Hickok and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian populations are among some of the fastest growing cultural groups in the US. While books on serving other target groups in libraries have been published (e.g., disabled, Latino, seniors, etc.), few books on serving library users of Asian heritage have been written. Thus the timely need for this book. Rather than a generalized overview of Asians as a whole, this book has 24 separate chapters—each on 24 specific Asian countries/cultures of East, Southeast, and South Asia—with a wealth of resources for understanding, interacting with, outreaching to, and serving library users of each culture. Resources include cultural guides (both print and online), language helps (with sample library vocabulary), Asian booksellers, nationwide cultural groups, professional literature, and more. Resources and suggestions are given for all three types of libraries—public, school, and academic—making this book valuable for all librarians. The demographics of each Asian culture (numbers and distribution)—plus history of immigration and international student enrollment—is also featured. As a bonus, each chapter spotlights a US public, school, and academic library providing model outreach to Asian library users. Additionally, this book provides a detailed description and analysis of libraries in each of the 24 Asian countries. The history, development, facilities, conditions, technology, classification systems, and more—of public, school, and academic libraries—are all discussed, with detailed documentation. Country conditions influencing libraries and library use are also described: literacy levels, reading cultures, languages and writing systems, educational systems, and more. Based on the author’s 15 years of research and travels to Asia, this work is a must-have for all librarians.

Download or read book Popular Culture written by Frank Hoffmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular Culture highlights important historical events such as the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions while examining world-changing social movements. You will go on a journey through time, exploring the cultures of the world, venturing from cavespace to tomb space, to temple space, then medieval space, to modern space and post-modern epochs, and finally to cyberspace. While moving through cultural history, you will explore such stories and discoveries as: the 1991 discovery of Oetzi the Ice Man, who is 5,300 years old the legends of the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Americans who or what turned on the light to the Dark Ages the impact of René Descartes: “I think, therefore I am,” and the inspiration of the Enlightenment modernism and the determination to be up to date the incredible 20th century that McDonaldized the world postmodernism and its technology cyburbia and globalism Popular Culture contains a wide collection of stories covering cultural phenomena such as Tutmania, the Crusades, the Ninja Turtles, Hamburger University, elitism, Shakespeare, America's Frontier Thesis, The Global Village, and the coming millennium. You will be intrigued by the plethora of fascinating links that Professor Fishwick makes in this comprehensive guide to ever-changing popular culture.