Bolivia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Published by Kuperard August 2009, 2009
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- Title
- Bolivia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author
- Keith Richards,Culture Smart!
- Publisher
- Kuperard August 2009
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Used Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 185733485X
- ISBN 13
- 9781857334852
- Seller catalogs
- Travel: (Adventure, Exploration, Mountaineering, Outdoors, Survival)
"Culture Smart! Bolivia" explains how to avoid cultural gaffes when out and about in the country. Giving the historical, political and cultural background, the guide reveals how to read body language and be aware of potential pitfalls in communication."Culture Smart! Bolivia" provides priceless cultural information not found in an average guidebook. Whether looking to secure a business deal, enrich your travels, or better understand the people and customs of Bolivia, "Culture Smart!" provides indispensable information. Culture Smart! provides rare insights, and practical guidance, into cultures. The values, behaviour and customs of peoples have been formed over centuries which is why the unique information in Culture Smart! guides do not date in the same way as ordinary travel guides. Culture Smart! enables you to step into a world untouched by other guidebooks.
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About the Author
KEITH JOHN RICHARDS was born in London in 1953.He has lived in Italy, Peru, Costa Rica, and the United States, as well as Bolivia. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from King s College, University of London, for a thesis on the Bolivian novelist and historian Néstor Taboada Terán, which was published in 1999 as Lo imaginario mestizo (The Mestizo Imaginary). His critical bilingual anthology, Narrative from Tropical Bolivia, was published in 2004. Keith Richards has taught Latin American film, literature, and popular culture at universities in Britain, the USA, and Bolivia. He has published widely on all these subjects and co-organized Latin American film symposia and festivals at the universities of Leeds (UK) and Richmond (Virginia). He has lived in La Paz, Bolivia, since 2005 and divides his time between teaching at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and writing; he is currently preparing a book on Latin American cinema.
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